Atheists maintain that spiritual experience is purely subjective, with no basis in a reality outside of the subject.

Everywhere we look, ideology slouches along the freeways and autoroutes, sometimes carrying a cross, sometimes a sickle, sometimes a crescent, but always busy doing somebody in somewhere, somehow.

Atheists maintain that spiritual experience is purely subjective, with no basis in a reality outside of the subject.

A delusion held by one person is a mental illness, held by a few is a cult, held by many is a religion.

Science is simply a logical process of discovering truths about the world we live in; the illusion is that science is some sort of a set of strange rules, a religion that speaks algebra or a magical group of incantations and spells.

The only thing infinite is our capacity for self-deception

History is replete with examples of what happens when any group of authorities do not have to answer to empirical evidence but are free to define truth as they see fit. None of the examples has a happy ending. Why should it be otherwise with therapy?