As can easily be demonstrated right here on Mudcat there are lots of folks who want to, or believe they HAVE talked to God. IT's their version of spiritual experience, and it is probably better, overall, than having no spiritual experience at all.


But it depresses me when the sharer of such an experience immediately claims that they have landed in the center of all spiritual experience, and mapped it in the definitive terms of the only acceptable description, using the very best receivwed Nomenclature with complete aplomb and authority. In doing so they invoke the very worst of our proselytizing forebears, and their mishmash of Victorian moral codes and Puritan obsessions, to the great cost of those on whom they descended.


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