What beliefs would we consider reasonable for a self proclaimed Christian to hold?

[Astreja]

  Posting the same bloody link in a larger font just makes you look like an idiot, so cut it out.

It is important to reference where a quote is located.

To me, the universe is beautiful because it is in constant change, not because it stays the same.  I have no use for (and no desire for) life after death, none at all.

That will be all the more surprising to you as it was to Howard Storm.

No, I don't expect to be surprised at all.  At brain death, all awareness and cognition simply stops, making it impossible to be surprised.

When I'm dead I expect to be not only merely dead, but to be really most sincerely dead.

And I hate to break it to you, but Howard Storm is still alive and still shilling his silly story.  By virtue of being not dead yet he is unqualified to speak of life after death.