This is a good argument not just against the subjectivity of the Holy Spirit speaking to Protestant Christians interpreting God and the Bible for themselves, but the unreliability of feelings-based 'truth seeking' across the religious/nonreligious divide. I wonder what MindShift Skeptic would say to people who feel they were born in the wrong body? Or to people who choose to 'identify' as this, that, or the other, because they feel that that is who they are? The scientific and psychology community has been going along with endorsing such feelings as 'true', now legally mandating recognition by all of society that there are many genders/sexes, etc. Are such intuitions as innately unreliable as the intuitions falsely associated by Christians as the truth-telling voice of the Holy Spirit? Should a 25 year old biological male be allowed to compete against teenaged girls in swimming because he feels that he's female? I agree with Mindshift that listening to the Spirit, or any feelings-based intuition, is mistaking mental activity for Ghostly whisperings, but all he shows is that Christianity does not have a special inner 'objectivity' that differentiates it from the inner feelings of non-HolySpiriters. Is he willing to apply this skeptical reasoning to other examples of dubious 'inner witness', or will his fear of cancelation and/or desire to replace his lost Christian faith with virtue-signalling progressivism cause him to restrict his brave debunking to only the Christian delusion?
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