A long read, but a good one. The sensus divinitatus or rather “subjective religious experience” is demonstrably an unreliable way of knowing things are true. This is because even Plantinga admits that the defence of the sensus divinitatus works for almost every single non-contradictory religion out there. Muslims use it, Mormons famously use it (they call it a burning in the bosom), and so on. Peter Boghossian specifically addresses this in A Manual for Creating Atheists as instances where believers say I just know in my heart that its true... ...The atheist doesnt have to call any religious person who claims a sensus divinitatus a liar. We accept that they feel or experience something. However we point out that their claims lead to contradictory conclusions, and that we lack such experiences. We can also show that religious belief and subsequent claims of the sensus divinitatus follows geographic distributions. Basically if you grow up in a Muslim country, chances are youll be a Muslim and have an Islamic SD, if you grow up in a Christian country, youll have the Christian SD. So it is with the Hindus, the Mormons, etc.
Posted on: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 01:38:51 +0000
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