Category Archives: Death

Attacking African Child-Witches

How can people be so cruel to their own children?
The 9-year-old boy lay on a bloodstained hospital sheet crawling with ants, staring blindly at the wall.
His family pastor had accused him of being a witch, and his father then tried to force acid down his throat as an exorcism. It spilled as he struggled, burning [...]

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Man Killed While Thanking God for Saving Him

Believers like to say God has a sense of humor. But if he does, I imagine it would not be the kind of humor we would appreciate.
For instance, recently a man was trapped in an elevator lift in Vienna, Austria. Gunther Link prayed out to God to save him, and someone came and rescued him. [...]

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Is George Sodini With Jesus?

Eternal life does NOT depend on works. If it did, we will all be in hell. Christ paid for EVERY sin, so how can I or you be judged BY GOD for a sin when the penalty was ALREADY paid. People judge but that does not matter.
Common evangelical beliefs, right? Many Christians would say “Amen!” [...]

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Will We Conquer Death?

Debate topic of the weekend:
Will humanity conquer death, either organically or digitally?
I think either have a possibility. We might be able to regrow our bodies/organs and if necessary transfer our memories or our brain.
Or we could build some kind of matrix where our memories could be stored digitally. Of the two, I certainly prefer the [...]

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Religious Cancer Patients Suffer More

Religious cancer patients are more prone to seek aggressive, life-prolonging care compared to non-religious patients, a new study says:
The patients who were devout were three times as likely as less religious ones to be put on a mechanical ventilator to maintain breathing during the last week of life, and they were less likely to do [...]

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Hoping immortality is a fact

Whoever says he knows that immortality is a fact is merely hoping that it is so.

(Carl Van Doren, “Why I am an Unbeliever” in The Portable Atheist, p. 140)

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Cryonic suspension

If a person went into cryonic suspension, when are they considered dead? If they were suspended for 10 years, then revived and lived for 50 years, would they have been considered dead before they were suspended? What about if they were suspended for 400 years? 10,000?
What’s the difference between being suspended for 10,000 years or [...]

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