From: suzych@swcp.com   
      
   In article <42833ca2_2@news.chariot.net.au>, "Top Poster"   
    wrote:   
      
   > Hello   
   >   
   > This is your Captain speaking   
   >   
   > I'm looking for solid references of true Atheists being "converted"   
      
   Er -- converted to what, exactly?  Are you referring to Xianity or just   
   to any form of spiritual belief, including the belief that your family's   
   ancestral totem, the fruitbat, is talking to you?   
      
   > as a result of NDE's. I'm not taking sides ...   
   > I see a great paradox in life and death for the atheists of the world.   
   > Whether it is through their own choosing or not, they "trust" what their   
   > minds are telling them more than they trust anything else. When their   
   > minds stays "playing tricks" on them as they get older (which of course is   
   > their own assessment of what happens),   
      
   When?!  What about "if", oh (self-styled) open-minded one?  Why assume   
   that everybody's mind "plays tricks" in the form of experiences   
   validating religion just because the mind ages?  First of all, NDE's are   
   not all alike and do not all produce the same sorts of "tricks", and   
   secondly know one knows whether FULL death experiences producet the   
   same visions or different ones (or none).   
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