God & conservatism part n....

Heater Mac Donald has a lengthy follow up article where she responds to her critics.

Tags

Regarding the 'personal experience of God' or 'sacred sense' that some religionists use as evidence of God's existence; 'sacred' experiences can be induced in other ways. Or maybe God just works through the mushrooms:

'Sacred mushrooms' induce mystical experience

Using unusually rigorous scientific conditions and measures, Johns Hopkins researchers have shown that the active agent in "sacred mushrooms" can induce mystical/spiritual experiences descriptively identical to spontaneous ones people have reported for centuries.

By somnilista, FCD (not verified) on 23 Aug 2006 #permalink