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Science Attempts To Explain Heaven
Hugh Pickens writes "Lisa Miller writes in Newsweek about the thesis that heaven is not a real place, or even a process or a supernatural event, but rather something that happens in your brain as you die. The thesis is based, in part, on a growing body of research around near-death experience. According to a 2000 article by Bruce Greyson in The Lancet, between 9 and 18 percent of people who have been demonstrably near death report having had an NDE. Surveys of NDE accounts show great similarities in the details, describing: a tunnel, a light, a gate or a door, a sense of being out of the body, meeting people they know or have heard about, finding themselves in the presence of God, and then returning, changed. Scientists have theorized that NDEs occur as a kind of physiological self-defense mechanism when, in order to guard against damage during trauma, the brain releases protective chemicals that also happen to trigger intense hallucinations. This theory has gained traction after scientists realized that virtually all the features of an NDE can be reproduced with a stiff dose of ketamine, a short-acting, hallucinogenic, dissociative anesthetic. 'I came out into a golden Light. I rose into the Light and found myself having an unspoken interchange with the Light, which I believed to be God,' wrote one user of his experience under ketamine. 'Dante said it better,' writes Miller, 'but the vision is astonishingly the same.'"
Hush now. THIS IS SCIENCE.
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I had a weird experience when my arm was set but that was just the Ketamine.
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Hate to disappoint, but if God does not exist since we could pinpoint the brain area responsible for it, then rationality does not exist either, nor logic cause we can easily shut down those areas as well. But probably that type of reasoning only applies to religion and the like.
The beauty of science is to hide facts.
Lacking belief in an afterlife makes this world far more precious; a thing that must be protected because there is, as yet, nowhere else for us to go.
Because all of the governments that had this as an official policy (Communism, Socialism, etc.) turned out to be oh, so just and quite the paradise.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
I can't imagine anybody who actually understands Christian principles saying that abortion is OK.
Then the whole problem is that you don't know a fucking thing about Christian principles.
Your god is extremely in favor of slicing pregnant women's bellies open and ripping the fetuses out. That is a wonderful thing according the the stated position of your god. He's gung ho in favor of murder, torture, rape, abortion, genocide and he's a rabidly racist piece of shit.
If you're too fucking dumb to have even read the bible and yet you think you can comment on Christian Principles, then...well... you're a typical Christian. A liar and a fool.
I don't know of any Christian who thinks we need to follow all the Old Testament laws.
All of the ones who read the Bible and believe that idiotic nonsense know that they have to follow every letter of every word of every one of the old testament laws because Jesus (supposedly, obviously he's a fairy tale character and never actually said anything) said exactly that. Not one letter of one word of one law, you fucking patheticly stupid lying sack of shit.
You are not a Christian, you don't know shit about Christianity and are a liar and fool to claim that you do.