RE: Something to shake the very foundation of your lack of faith
January 16, 2016 at 5:15 am
(This post was last modified: January 16, 2016 at 5:15 am by Fake Messiah.)
It is actually known that when people have withdrawal of blood from the brain or face death hallucinate which is then interpreted as entering "life after death". For starters look at this episode of Arthur C Clarke show dealing with that problem and you can skip right to explanation which starts at 18m 37s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI9L5ns3Wvg
Now being faced with your own death can be really stupefying even for a scientist that he or she might go mad and start to think it was really some sort of world after death. Indeed people go crazy every day sometimes their child dies and they just can not cope with that notion, especially if they had religious background in childhood and start to believe in Sai Baba or Pope or Tom Cruise and these assholes are prying for people for their "morals" to go down and make money on them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI9L5ns3Wvg
Now being faced with your own death can be really stupefying even for a scientist that he or she might go mad and start to think it was really some sort of world after death. Indeed people go crazy every day sometimes their child dies and they just can not cope with that notion, especially if they had religious background in childhood and start to believe in Sai Baba or Pope or Tom Cruise and these assholes are prying for people for their "morals" to go down and make money on them.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
