Challenges to religious experience: Caroline Franks Davis

Description-related challenges

• When any event is described that claims itself to be an experience of God or the divine, then a claim is being made for which there is no proof
  • The description is therefore not valid
  • The claim is inconsistent or contradictory to normal everyday experience and so should be rejected
  • It is not a claim that is in any sense valid, merely a misunderstanding of the experience on the part…