(April 1, 2015 at 1:08 am)robvalue Wrote: It's pure fantasy, with absolutely no relation to anything real anyone has ever experienced...That is the difference between science and religion: science makes testable, falsifiable claims.
Firstly an afterlife has been experienced by real people during NDE's. Repeated studies by respectable researchers like Van Lommel, have clearly demonstrated that NDE's are what they appear to be. Secondly, Swedenborg was a real person who experienced both Heaven and Hell for extended periods of time and gave first hand reports of the things he saw and heard.