(February 9, 2017 at 8:57 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote:"Have you ever noticed, also, that NDEs have a cultural bias? If you're brought up in the West, where Christianity dominates, you'll have a vision of the Abrahamic/Christian heaven or hell, not the Hindu afterlife. And the reverse is true for people who live in other parts of the world where another religion is dominant, often even when that person is not religious at all."(February 9, 2017 at 8:48 pm)Mirek-Polska Wrote: Interesting, there is one case (Howard Storm) where he believes he saw hell, and converts from an atheist to a reverend. I doubt he was lying because that was such a dramatic change. What are the odds in your opinion that some of the stories on near-death.com were made up and fabricated?
Kirk Cameron claims to have been an atheist and then makes outrageous claims of what he thought when he was an "atheist". None of which ANY atheist I know or have encountered have ever thought.
Ex "atheists", like ex smokers, are notorious for the length they'll go to in an attempt to distance themselves from their former habits. And when they become Christian "again" they know there's a huge amount of money to be made.
Have you ever noticed, also, that NDEs have a cultural bias? If you're brought up in the West, where Christianity dominates, you'll have a vision of the Abrahamic/Christian heaven or hell, not the Hindu afterlife. And the reverse is true for people who live in other parts of the world where another religion is dominant, often even when that person is not religious at all.
That is a very compelling point. I tried to search for other NDEs but I could not find any from different cultures. On youtube, the majority of them are Christian
