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A Defense of Religion [W:331 & 426]

Angel said:
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Because the religious experience begins where all experience begins: CONSCIOUSNESS.

Mind, spirit, soul, psyche -- these are the familiar names of the nuances of consciousness as they have come down to us across the ages.

Let us begin with two self-evident truths:

CONSCIOUSNESS IS IMMATERIAL

REALITY IS CONSCIOUSNESS OF REALITY
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This is by no means "self-evident truths". Nice try. In fact, there are very good reasons to believe that Consciousness is a term we use in an effort to rationalize how the activity and mechanisms of the physical brain/nervous system produce a subjective experience. That does not even suggest or provide any evidence for the idea that consciousness is "immaterial". Rather, it suggests the depth of our ignorance on the topic. Just because we do not know what consciousness is or how it arises does not mean that it is therefore more sensible to suppose that there is an immaterial/supernatural realm to the universe that somehow both overlaps and escapes detection by all experiments ever conducted in the physical world. How does that hypothesis help explain anything? It raises far more questions than it answers
 
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