Is It Rational To Believe in God's Existence on the Basis of Religious Experience?

Religious experience can be cautiously defined as experience(s) an individual lives through and believes to be belonging to objective reality, with some form of relation to a religion, whereby a religion may be loosely described as an organized system of beliefs. The ( Read more... )

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‎"Argument of Suffering:

1. If God exists, then there would be no pointless suffering.

2. There is probably pointless suffering.

3. Therefore, probably God does not exist."

The point of contention is point number 2. The phrase “pointless suffering” is truly subjective. I understand something that is called “pointless” to be purposeless in a way ( Read more... )