You: Are you sure that these experiences are repeatable? Are you saying that you can demonstrate one for me?

Aaron: I am not saying that I can demonstrate anything. The feeling of the Holy Spirit does not come when bidden, but when God so wills it to come. Are you saying that this is an imagined experience just because it doesn't happen whenever I will it to? If so, then I would hasten to remind you that there are many effects — in physics for example — which do not happen when convenient, but only on a random basis.

You: That is true, but those random effects you speak of can be detected when they recur and are therefore experiments concerning them are repeatable. There is no way for a true religious experience to be detected in an unambiguous way by someone not experiencing it, and I would argue that the person experiencing it cannot determine if it is true or not.

Aaron: It seems to me that your eyes have been closed by too much science. I know that what I have experienced came from the hand of God and that is more than enough for me.

You: Fine, but it means nothing at all to me.