Posted by:
dogblogger
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Date: June 19, 2012 05:40PM
Most religious believers won't follow you down this path, but the obvious response is:
How do you know it was the Holy Ghost? How do you test for that?
Then tell them the story of Joseph Smith and selling the BoM Canadian copyright. When the prophecy fails, JS responds that there are three sources of revelation. God, man and the devil. JS couldn't tell the difference. How do you?
In other words, feelings don't equal fact about factual claims. The can equal fact about feelings (love, like, dislike pleasant and so on), but not on revelation, book's truthfulness and so on.
To restate Occam's Razor as Diax's Rake (in Neal Stephenson's Anathem):
Never believe a thing simply because you want it to be true
http://anathem.wikia.com/wiki/Diax%27s_Rake