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Originally posted by Russ D
Most of the above but I think the last line says enough...
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I was talking about this quote that you highlited:
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I have had occurrences, close shaves, near misses that, if I was religious I would have attributed to a higher power. Before you say....how do you know that they weren't down to divine intervention?.......of course I don't but I think that on balance, they probably weren't.
We could go round and round for days......years even
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as for this one:
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The brain is capable of making you feel such things....and of making you think that they are real.
An example: When someone has an angiogram (dye is pumped into the coronary arteries and then observed on x-ray) they can feel that they are in the presence of an invisible being/angel/devil, they might feel an incredible feeling of peace come over them. Or they might simply feel heat or that they have wet themselves. All of which is simply an effect of the dye entering the coronary arteries.
There are other explanations for religious experiences....
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It is merely a statement of fact.