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Sometime in the recent past, the religion of atheism was so convenient for its faithful believers in at least one respect—they do not have to worry about the afterlife. Recently, however, some of their leading “pastors” are entertaining the plausibility of the soul’s immortality. And yes, of course they remain unshaken in their core belief that God is dead. They just now say God does not need to exist in order for the soul to survive. Oh well, whatever pleases them.
In the article Eternity for Atheists see how Jim Holt of the New York Times considers the possibility. He quotes speculations by one philosopher after another, considers the theories of one scientist after another, try to blend them well together with orthodox atheism and, voila! You have an upgraded version of atheism for the Web 2.0 generation!
Really, I was trying to be open-minded about the ideas proposed in the article. They sounded somewhat profound after all and well within the tradition of scientific guesswork. I must confess, though, it was a nice read and made me laugh a bit. Oh, I am so glad I do not share their passionate denial of God’s existence.All their speculations really sounded like philosophical delusions than anything else. But the sad thing is, they are not joking. They seriously believe they can understand the great beyond through speculation. Have they really lost all respect for epistemology?
At any rate, this development is something to celebrate. Theists and atheists no have a little bit more in common than at any other time in the past!!! If atheists will consider every other speculation about the afterlife, it would be the height of scientific dishonesty to relegate to the trash bin the tons of ideas about the afterlife written in the bible!
Come on atheist friend, read the bible.
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it's like the Matrix meets ET with a dash of quantum physics and tidbits of the paranormal
what's more confusing is that these "New Age Philosophers" are willing to believe in ghosts and the "tunnel into the light" thing, but not the soul as described by the Bible.. hmm..
next thing we know, they're saying that the soul is just a ball of energy that can inhabit anything and are unending, lurking like parasites among us.. which is not ORIGINAL at all!
you can encounter the same beliefs by just reading the common fiction novel talking about the paranormal or the psychopathic ideals of well, psycopaths
did you guys know that Francis Crick believed that we are created by ETs of higher intelligence?! haha.. what's more outrageous than that, eh?!
on a serious note,they believe in the existence of a soul, that the soul is immortal, but didn't try to explain how the soul came to be..?! atheism is just sooo.. absurd
The sad thing anyway is that they are serious. They are open minded about anything and everything so long as it did not come from the Bible.
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