William Alston's analysis of perceptual religious experience does not weaken the Critical Stance; rather, religious diversity poses a more serious challenge to his doxastic practice epistemology than he acknowledges. When doxastic practices operate under ambiguous conditions and amid disagreement, their outputs should be regarded with suspicion, even by practitioners themselves.
The argument for the Critical Stance remains intact despite appeals to religious experience. The diversity of religious experiences across traditions, each taken by adherents to support their own beliefs, weakens any single tradition's claim. Moreover, religious experience typically supports only a portion of the beliefs within a tradition, not the whole set.