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Originally Posted by tame_deuces
Also, if the pain clears, chances are fairly big most people will be able to rationalize their experience at continue holding similar beliefs as before.
Right, but assumption 1 says that pain is calling for a change. When we put our hand on a hot stove, the pain is telling us to act by removing it. When someone is questioning their religious belief system after losing a loved one to a tragic accident, is life, in that moment, attempting to get that person to abandon their belief system?
The second example is much less obvious than the first but there is insight there. However, that insight may only be able to be grabbed during the actual experience and not in an analysis like this, I don't know. I reject the notion that the reason the religious person in that example is contemplating the validity of their entire belief system is due to questions of causality of the incident. I feel strongly there is more to it than that.