(July 15, 2014 at 4:17 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Let's all cool our jets. I haven't seen anyone here being presumptuous; we're all going by the information you shared. Also, nobody's trying to be a dick to you. We're all basically advising you to separate your friend as a theist from your friend as a vulnerable human being.
See, that's the presumption. Of course I separate him as a person from being a theist, but he is going to bring this stuff up to me, guaranteed. I was looking for advice for what to say when he brings it up.
If the hypothetical idea of an afterlife means more to you than the objectively true reality we all share, then you deserve no respect.