Even if theism is a failure, it's still superior to atheism

[arewethereyet]

There are more than a few of us here who have come up close and personal with our own deaths.

You need to take your meds if you think I, among others, are just going to take your word for much of anything.

Okay, fine, since you insist.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar...1919306688

The first line in the abstract reads : "The human mind has an automatic tendency to avoid awareness of its mortality". 

I am actually surprised that you're doubting this point, as it's actually ammunition for the atheist : they might argue, using this observation, that the immortality of the soul is nothing but a reflection of our subconscious -which constantly tries to "forget" that death is a thing.

When I was having a heart attack in the back of an ambulance, I was pretty aware of my mortality.

I knew that I may or may not live to see the dawn.  

My cancer diagnosis was less of a facedown with own mortality.  I knew it would take time.  It might be a week or years, but the heart attack was right damn now...it had the potential of ending very quickly.

Read all you want...some of us have lived it.