But considering that some atheists do get these involuntarily and the vast supermajority of religious folk never get them at all, why call them “religious experiences”?
Perhaps the same reason we call the game “Chinese Checkers” despite not being from China and not a variant of checkers: someone called it that, and the name stuck, and it’s “too late” to change it now.
Perhaps the same reason we call the game “Chinese Checkers” despite not being from China and not a variant of checkers: someone called it that, and the name stuck, and it’s “too late” to change it now.