(March 9, 2018 at 1:30 am)purplepurpose Wrote: orthodox-man, it takes time to research this topic. I seen few NDE reports and it's impossible to know what those people saw(unless you use lie detector or hypnotize them) and did they added a lot of things to make a good enough story to "save" souls.
Seeing how believers like to lie on end day dates as well as reveled fake cases of NDE, I just don't trust religion anymore.
Precisely purplepurpose. Believers in every religion have relied for thousands of years on threats and fantasy stories. Without any sort of true global intelligence, these worked quite well. Even today, social media teems with "true stories" posted by various stripes of preachers. A (very religious) friend of mine posted one, and I responded with the studies that debunked the story that she posted. Her response was fury. She said "I don't care if it really happened or not, it's inspirational, so it's true."
They are running on thousands of years of "whatever that Shaman tells you is true" and if you challenge that you will go to hell. A lot of religious folks are still working in parable mode - the story doesn't have to be true as long as it brings people to GOD.
I'm so glad that we have entered into an era of fact-checking and peer-reviewed data. -- Even if we have to wade through a swamp of "fake news" to get there as a society.
"The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children."- Albert Einstein
