Near death experience of Howard Storm

[Mister Agenda]

I still find it very unlikely that they'd all be straight up lying. Just knowing you guys here and how hostile you are towards religions and the idea of God, I would think it was very strange for any of you to turn your backs on that for the sake of writing a book and hopefully making money.

And even stranger still what this guy did. Not only did he write books about it (he could have just done that and stopped there), but he went as far as to quit his job and go to seminary school, become a pastor, and dedicate his life to Christianity. Could a strong atheist put on this whole charade??

Honestly I'd believe it was a somehow extremely convincing hallucination before I believed it was all a lie.

How strange it would be for one of us to do that has more to do with what we're willing to do for money than our 'hostility' toward religions and the idea of God (depends on which idea of God, doesn't it?). All it takes to cash in your atheist street cred for big bucks in the religion game is sufficient cynicism.

You have no idea if this guy was really anything like us, but for some reason you find his claim of being so atheist much more plausible than that the alarm bells we hear going off about that claim have any legitimate basis.

It could well have been an extremely convincing hallucination, and he could still be lying about how anti-religious he was before having it. Or he could be reporting as accurately as possible without regard to his book sales or appearances on talk shows. I personally find his behavior consistent with the kind of embellishments story tellers often put into their tales to make them more interesting.