In the comments section of a popular blog, a poster named Rude Dog poked fun at the term "testimony" because we use it as if it were a legitimate term... a term of knowing.
"Using the term... outside the Mormon and Born Again Christian paradigm leaves most with a perplexed expression. Perhaps you should go as far as to contact the various national academies and recommend that their methods of epistemology are archaic, and that the 'burning bosom' method of knowledge acquisition should be employed. When comes the day when one grows up and leaves a bawling immaturity that defines the infancy of our species will we realize that when it comes to the metaphysical, the supernatural, there is nothing that one can 'know', but only what can be believed or not believed. I get it that one can believe, but don't project upon the true reality that somehow God has spoken to you but not to me, for greater hubris and solipsism there is none. I don't think the religious realize how 'proud' they really are."
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