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On 02/08/2020 15:57, Giulio Prisco wrote:<br>
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<div dir="auto">Good point John. These two ideas need not
necessarily be connected. But they usually are. How many
atheists are open to the idea of afterlife/resurrection
(natural or technological)?</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On 2020. Aug 2., Sun at
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Sun, Aug 2, 2020 at 5:28 AM Giulio Prisco via
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</span>Well, I’m sure many atheists are very good
and moral people who find meaning in life, but I
also think they are sad. Thinking that I’ll never
see my loved departed ones would make me extremely
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<font size="4">Why do so many people just assume that
the existence of an omnipotent omniscient being who
created the universe must imply that humans have a
eternal life after death<span class="gmail_default"
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but the non-existence of such a being means they have
no chance of such a thing? Seems to me the existence
of God and human immortality are two independent ideas
that need not be connected, and I see no particular
reason why they would be.</font></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><span
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K Clark</span></font></div>
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<font size="4">Again, how is this relevant?<br>
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You might as well ask how many atheists are open to putting peanut
butter in a cheese sandwich, or how many atheists are open to the
idea of snowboarding in the nude.<br>
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I don't know what 'natural afterlife/resurrection' means. The
whole point of pursuing a technological solution is that we know
it doesn't just happen by itself.<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Ben Zaiboc</pre>
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