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Originally Posted by Michael Chui  Angela,
How do you reconcile this with your disagreements with religions involving a Personal Interventionist God? |
How do I reconcile WHAT with my disagreements about the p.i.g.?
Do you mean, my questioning why people would demand proof for a personal belief, which is what I have appeared to do on the p.i.g. threads?
If that's what you mean, I've been careful to state my understanding of a demand for proof when the concept is an interventionist one. In the case of a p.i.g., believers can be extremely interventionist, and that's when I'm likely to get irritated and tell them no evidencee, no complyee. But you probably notice that I have no quarrel with people whose religious beliefs don't require them to interfere with my life. Rare as they may be.
I haven't seen any cases of people talking about their experiences with OBE's, psychic phenomena or lucid dreaming behaving in an interventionist manner. Oh, except people like Sylvia Browne; she
is interventionist and I'm fine with confronting her for proof of her "abilities."
Is that what you're talking about?