Get Over It: We Experience Objective Reality
I often hear theists on atheist call-in programs insist that their subjective experiences of God are meaningful and beyond scrutiny because all of us -- theists and atheists alike -- are prisoners in our own private subjective worlds. In other words, how can atheists reject the theist's claims when they are in the same subjectivist boat? One quick response is that if this is true, how can we be communicating, that is, understanding each other? That requires a common frame of reference. (More on that below). Another is that this is the pathway to radical skepticism and solipsism: not only can I not really know anything about The Real World; I can't even know that anyone or anything exists but my own mind! That's a dead end no matter what you are seeking. It hardly proves the existence of God because it proves nothing whatsoever. In fact, it has a contradiction at its foundation. In the very act of asserting that we cannot know reality, the theist makes substantial knowledge