"The evidence falls into different categories: Near Death Experiences (NDEs), spontaneous past life recall in early childhood (reincarnation), mediumship, and apparitions of the dead appearing to the living are some of the main areas. The data in every area is very strong and has been for decades"
Show this data, with controls.
Oh wait, controls require the belief in causality, rather than wish-fulfilment.
Ironic really; "No trick dispels. Religion used to try,
That vast moth-eaten musical brocade...."
You're just another pusher of a different, tye-dyed rag.
" The underlying nihilism also makes it impossible to enact solutions to our ecological crisis, which require shared sacrifice. "
No arguments there. But, pretending that there is an afterlife allows us to put off the work of fixing the world because "the other dimensions/afterlife/heaven will save us, they are our true home". See:all of religion.
"The evidence falls into different categories: Near Death Experiences (NDEs), spontaneous past life recall in early childhood (reincarnation), mediumship, and apparitions of the dead appearing to the living are some of the main areas. The data in every area is very strong and has been for decades"
Show this data, with controls.
Oh wait, controls require the belief in causality, rather than wish-fulfilment.
Ironic really; "No trick dispels. Religion used to try,
That vast moth-eaten musical brocade...."
You're just another pusher of a different, tye-dyed rag.
" The underlying nihilism also makes it impossible to enact solutions to our ecological crisis, which require shared sacrifice. "
No arguments there. But, pretending that there is an afterlife allows us to put off the work of fixing the world because "the other dimensions/afterlife/heaven will save us, they are our true home". See:all of religion.