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Going by the things you post on this subject, for some reason maybe emotion or an irrational bias, you seem to constantly ignore how science actually works. It isn't a democracy. The laws of Nature are not determined by impressions garnered from popular votes. Science succeeds because it...

Yes well, you could try pointing logic and reason at knowledge instead. It's what folks have been doing since the Enlightenment and for good reason. That's how it's been possible to point at things that are actually true. Without those two things, your knowledge can be no more than a pretense...

Full circle.:D You have stated logic and reason will not take you to knowledge. uh. Therefor there is nothing in what you have said that can determine nor define the knowledge you say can be received. No way to know it is not bad, untrue, misleading, trivial, illogical or irrational...

Excellent. The Universe can always use another scientist. :)

If there were an afterlife and with there being no rational or reasonable information available about it beforehand, likely your bet is exactly the right one that would win the prize.:)

An experience, an anecdote, a trip, a story. Things occurring naturally, not supernatural things. Heaven and Hell are supernatural assumptions. Assuming the supernatural, does not mean the supernatural could exist. It cannot just be assumed into existence. Science is so successful exactly...

Just because you haven't seen hell doesn't mean it could be there. Had oxygen been supernatural, that would negate its existence.

18th Chapter of Luke Strolling into the Temple's Meditative Garden, Luke and Mara were silently greeted by Master Saba Sebatyne. Ben lagged behind them, his hands clutching the Datacron that had been forgotten. He had said nothing since leaving Jedi HQ, which filled Mara with growing concern...

In order to tell whether the Bible might be right or wrong, one has to be able to discern between those two things before understanding it, not after. People can't confirm what's right by studying the Bible unless they can already distinguish right wrong good bad apart from each other beforehand.

Never mind how I define religion. Your "reception of knowledge" conforms to the formal definitions of the words religious faith whether I say it does or not. Contradiction is not coherency.... Really!? Reason and logic requires work. Your 'reception of knowledge' requires no work. Then by...

I'm saying you can only reasonably and honestly describe that experience as the reception of religious faith, for the many reasons I've already laid out. I am also saying it is somewhat dishonest because of such an experience to try and supplant the words religious and faith with the word...

Dude, here's WTF... You're using words like philosophy, reasoning knowledge, to describe and support something as true. Namely a personal religious experience you've had. Surely you agree that were you applying those disciplines properly, there should generally be some consistency and coherence...

o_O religion eh?

Sure I've had "knowledge of Christ", certainly not faith filled and not Christian, but I get how your "knowledge of Christ" might appeal to the ego. The attraction of ideas, convictions and experiences that can make a person feel special over other beings who don't get it like you do...

Yet both those statements necessarily rely upon religious faith, not reality based knowledge. As a Gnostic I do see how you will need to commingle two distinctly different words into one meaning.... ! Unfortunately for your argument, you don't get for things to be one special way for you and...

Problem with your theory being, everything you say applies equally to you. It's just as likely therefore that all you believe and say, is mere imagination, not what is real.. Reality does the convincing, not the other way round.

Great, then all folk need do is imagine Hell doesn't exist and poof, in reality, it doesn't.

Indeed, faith is very powerful. Which is basically what I'm saying. Superstition is a natural psychological defense. Faith in a superstition which a person holds to or practices, whether it's Christian superstition or some other, can be extremely useful to some for survival or generally coping...

Maybe, maybe not, but I'll just say, 'Jesus loves you' is the last thing you're gonna want to hear in a Mexican prison.

Well depends on what you read I suppose. "Faith-based prison programs claim to reduce recidivism, but there's little evidence, says FSU research" http://www.fsu.edu/news/2006/10/04/prison.programs/ "Policymakers across the country are pushing for implementation of faith-based prisoner reentry...