Tim, believing in an afterlife is denying the reality which is that we die at the end of our lives.
Believers in the afterlife do not deny that the body dies. As questions like - Is that it? Is there anything after that? The answers to those questions are undetermined.
Tim, it may be undetermined conclusively but the factual evidence clearly is on the side of our lives being over at the time of death.
One could just as easily say that the belief in no afterlife is the denying the reality that there is an afterlife. <?I.
I am not saying there is not an afterlife. I am open to the possibility. However, once again, the evidence more clearly supports the negative possibility as opposed to the positive.....assuming you think an afterlife is positive.
When a religious person is confronted with the specter of death, they have no doubt that the person has gone onto a better place so firmly is their denial in place.
1 - Religious belief in an afterlife may be true. If so they would only be denying something that is false.
No, they are denying the reality which is we die completely when we die. As far as I know, aside from religious speculation, the only real evidence of an afterlife are those people who have had near death experiences and the guy on the Sci fi channel who contacts the dead, and frankly, I wouldn't stake my life, or rather my death, on either one.
Eventually, she refused to talk about it. I believe she refused to talk further because
her denial was beginning to take on leaks, and if it fell apart, a lot of her belief system would fall apart with it.
Even if that one example was denial (and I am only sure that it was only denial if you are talking about the second order belief that her main religious beliefs were completely supported by available facts and logic) that shows nothing about religious faith in general. It would be like me using an example of a confused emotional liberal democrat to claim that all or at least most liberal democrats are confused and emotional. It can be used to highlight what you are talking about but it doesn't provide much support for your argument.
Good point......I agree.
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