(July 25, 2011 at 1:15 pm)Godschild Wrote: How could you possibly know you haven't experienced it yet, besides if it were what you believe death to be, then after your gone I would agree, no big deal, however it is getting to that point that brings the terrifying fear, I've experienced christians dying and seen peace and I've seen others who feared death with all their being, so maybe you might want to rethink death when it is the finial stage as you seem to believe.
My mother and father were both atheists. They went to their deaths in peace. They'd both lived full and productive lives, had found love with each other and raised a reasonably functional family and each accomplished what they wanted to in their professional lives as well.
You're right that people when they're lucid and dying are either at peace or terrified, one of two extremes. The difference lies not in their confidence of a happy afterlife but rather of their contentment in the life they'd lived.
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"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
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