"basis for morality"
Ok, at least he didn't involve this idiocy... that's nice. I particularly hate when I see that one.
"got some vague feeling"
“The best way I can explain it is it wasn’t just perceiving something or experiencing something, it was experiencing some particular thing in a whole new way of experiencing it,” Horn says. “And it was the fact that it was a new way that was strange, more so than the interaction with the new thing … The only word I can use for it is a mystical sense.
Bullseye! Maybe TLC will give me my own psychic reality series!
Oooh, spooky feeling. Therefore God! Want to reach through internet and slap this doofus as I'm reading this section...
"can't explain X therefore..."
“It was a whole new way of experiencing reality, to which there is no analogy in anything else that I’ve experienced, and because of that it’s very difficult to explain.”
Surprise surprise... and that was IT. Resigned his post the next day. Because he HAD A FEELING he wasn't expecting while reading a text and didn't know why. So it MUST have been that it was a Catholic text and therefore what the text was sayin was somehow *true* (why exactly?) and he should be a Catholic!
Argh... and he was president of the SKEPTICISM society? Did he ever look the word up during his tenure in that position?
Missed the "became an atheist partly because he found out his idiot fundamentalist parents were feeding him lies about the world his whole childhood" angle though. Not the worst reason to initially become one, insufficient reason to BE one though.
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