Is a religious experience evidence for God?
God is imaginary. But imagination is real. So . . . the religious experience is a real experience. It happens to many believers in all
God is imaginary. But imagination is real. So . . . the religious experience is a real experience. It happens to many believers in all

FFRF Attorney Andrew Seidel sets Newsweek’s Andrew Sullivan straight on religion and history.

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