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I think you're being too generous to this kind of argument. I'd say it's "the only religious argument I can't immediately dismiss".

One way of proceeding to argue with it, for example, would be to say, "how do you know you're not mad?".

[Amusingly half way through writing this comment, this radio programme started: http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/pZ-Jq-iaTOia... It's about an object that apparently people used to use to talk to god!]



I tend to avoid arguments that can't possibly convince my opponent, though if the objective is to convince a neutral third party I guess that might be a promising argument.

The other side of that sword is that the personal religious experience argument isn't especially convincing to others, either.




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