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About belief or lack of belief in an afterlife: Some of you may know that I am neither Christian nor Jewish nor Buddhist, nor a conventionally religious person of any sort. I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishments after I’m dead.
Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian

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Bertrand Russell on God

In a CBC TV interview from 1959, Bertrand Russell, a British Nobel Prize-winning philosopher and mathematician, discusses his beliefs on God, an afterlife and religious people.

christiannightmares: Kirk Cameron slams Stephen Hawking and John Lennon over anti-Christian attitudes toward Heaven (To read the story, click image or here; For a related video, click here.) “Professor Hawking is heralded as ‘the genius of Britain,’ yet he believes in the scientific impossibility that nothing created everything and that life sprang from non-life.” The former teen heartthrob steamed to TMZ. “Why should anyone believe Mr. Hawking’s writings if he cannot provide evidence for his unscientific belief that out of nothing, everything came?” Yes, because as we all know, “former teen heartthrob” Kirk Cameron is far more qualified to comment on what is or is not “scientific” than that hack Stephen Hawking. Also, I love how Kirk Cameron’s argument is ‘why should you believe it if you can’t prove it?’ … … …

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Kirk Cameron slams Stephen Hawking and John Lennon over anti-Christian attitudes toward Heaven (To read the story, click image or here; For a related video, click here.)

“Professor Hawking is heralded as ‘the genius of Britain,’ yet he believes in the scientific impossibility that nothing created everything and that life sprang from non-life.” The former teen heartthrob steamed to TMZ. “Why should anyone believe Mr. Hawking’s writings if he cannot provide evidence for his unscientific belief that out of nothing, everything came?”

Yes, because as we all know, “former teen heartthrob” Kirk Cameron is far more qualified to comment on what is or is not “scientific” than that hack Stephen Hawking. Also, I love how Kirk Cameron’s argument is ‘why should you believe it if you can’t prove it?’ … … …

People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn’t bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn’t bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn’t even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn’t bear not to.
Miles “Pudge” Halter, Looking for Alaska by John Green