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Alan Ferris  
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 More options May 10 2012, 1:46 pm
Newsgroups: alt.religion.christian.roman-catholic, alt.philosophy, alt.atheism
From: Alan Ferris <hairy.fer...@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 18:46:14 +0100
Local: Thurs, May 10 2012 1:46 pm
Subject: Re: What is a Religious Experience?
On Wed, 9 May 2012 22:55:16 -0700, Rockinghorse Winner

<badass.super...@gmx.com> wrote:
>Does religious feeling have to include an experience of 'God?' Is religious
>feeling incompatible with atheism?  Can a religious experience ever
>contradict previously held religious beliefs rather than be interpreted in
>terms of those beliefs?  Thoughts?  Ideas?

I assisted with videoing a photographing at an evangelical rally over
a week where thousands of Christians turned up each day and each
evening there was a massed service.  Now my friend kept telling me
that it was amazing the feeling of Jesus's presence, he could fee a
real buzz every evening.  I to could feel a buzz, but I recognised it
for what it was.  It is the same buzz you get at a concert or major
sports final.  That smell of adrenaline causing your own body to
respond as well.  So, you would call that Jesus, I just call it a
massed public response.

One laugh I had was the visiting pastor one evening who came from an
American healing church and tried to claim my knee.....when there was
absolutely no reaction or change I was blamed for not having faith.
The look on his face when I reminded him that it was his faith that
mattered when it comes to healing left me laughing all the way home.

What it really meant was that as I did not believe in his god I was
not suckered by his lines  and did not fall for being fleeced.

--
Ferrit

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