(2018-09-19, 06:38 AM)Typoz Wrote: This part always bewilders me. It seems the atheist view presented here is that the only alternative to atheism is the god of Abraham. Anyone who reads a few NDE accounts will see that there are other possibilities. Or even through direct personal experience. It isn't necessary to be so constrained in one's outlook - otherwise it makes atheism look like nothing more than a sulking rejection of the establishment. The latter would be ok as a starting point, but one needn't get stuck there.
Maybe it's time for atheism to truly drop the god of Abraham, rather than continue to carry it as part of the belief system.
Or maybe a few more atheists should read this forum because I believe several of us have made the same point until we're tired of the repetition. This is not a religious forum. Proponents here are not, in general, carrying that burden of devotion.
I do not make any clear distinction between mind and God. God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond the scale of our comprehension.
Freeman Dyson
Freeman Dyson