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Originally Posted by alextsakiris  - I guess I'd ask you the same question I asked David... how do you square your atheism with the content of NDE (not to mention death-bed vision, after-life encounters and medium communication). |
If one defines 'God' as a collective term for all evolving lifeforms then I am probably not an atheist.
If by 'God' ones means the Christian idea that God exists as a human like form ... then I am an atheist. (If a Christian sees a human being in intense light during an NDE etc. perhaps they assume 'God' since they have been conditioned to view God as a man like being?)
I would tend to view the situation as lifeforms evolving God rather than God evolving lifeforms. Religion doesn't like the concept of an evolving God (even if it is the same outcome) they want an unchanging eternally perfect creator ... so I just prefer to avoided using their terms altogether.