I wouldn`t, I would just hate religion even more. Because (somehow/someway) religious dogma would have slipped into my sub-concious mind and caused my dying brain to hallucinate. I don`t care how "Real" the experience appeard to be, this is what I would attribute this phenomena too.
2007-10-04 11:08:48 · 25 answers · asked by Future 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
no. NDE's don't prove anything, it's just a chemical response in the brain. NDE's vary greatly by culture, when Americans have an NDE it is typical to see a white tunnel of light, and often they will see deceased family members standing waiting for them. Some people have had NDE's where they see a lake of fire.
Now when people living in other cultures have NDE's their experience varies greatly from that. Hindus that have had NDE's often report having seen Hindu gods. Many of them see a figure that is looking through a great book, who looks for their name and can't find it and sends them back. If NDE's were indicative of truth in any way then why does the experience vary so greatly from culture to culture? NDE's are often just a manifestation of what we already think the afterlife should be like because of ideas that are ingrained in our culture
http://www.near-death.com/hindu.html
2007-10-04 11:17:09 · answer #1 · answered by lindsey p 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't hate religion, but I would certainly question the experience -- I think we've all had some pretty funky dreams. It might cause me to reflect more on my own lack of beliefs, but if I couldn't interpret it or verify that it happened in some way, I don't know what I'd do with the experience.
If, on the other hand, I was told the future with impressive specifics, and upon waking up I wrote it down, and a few years later it happened exactly as predicted, without any vagueness or interpretation needed -- that would make me question my nonbelief.
2007-10-04 11:15:42 · answer #2 · answered by Michael 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sure, maybe. I don't need proof that I can share with anyone else. I need proof for me. I think that's the point many Christians, et al, are trying to make. It doesn't matter what other people believe, it's what you believe.
I just don't have anything in my world that convinces me of god, so I don't believe. I am, however, convinced that I am correct in my assumption, otherwise I would be agnostic.
Added note: Looking above, I'm glad I'm not the only atheist who would willingly look at evidence presented. Religions don't bother me nearly as much as the close-mindedness that often goes with them.
2007-10-04 11:24:07 · answer #3 · answered by Fu Quan 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The only near death experience I have had is bleeding to death on a mountain side with a leg sheered off by a rock. I did not pray or call on any silly god to help I organised someone to go for help and gave someone else a quick lesson in first aid so they could stop the bleeding then I had a little nap
2007-10-04 11:16:31 · answer #4 · answered by Maid Angela 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
those near death experiences are little more than dreams. As for heaven, it is BIBICALLY described as center for God's government, as for hell, Jesus was a Jew, and Jews believed if you died there was nothing, as the scripture goes, "as the living are conscience they will die, the dead are conscience of nothing" The terms like hades and Sheol for the Jewish people used to mean simply the common state of death shared by all things. In other words the state of being dead.
2007-10-04 11:17:17 · answer #5 · answered by Tigre 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If I had a near-death experience, I would attribute any "vision" I might have to an interruption in the electro-chemical activity of my brain.
By the way, I don't hate religion. Religion has made, and continues to make, many positive contributions to the world. I just don't think it would be honest of me to participate in it.
2007-10-04 11:12:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
Yo. I have indeed noticed how all near death experiences involve a tunnel of light and a feeling of peace, rather than brief glimpses of a firepit with guys who look like Hellboy waving pitchforks about.
2007-10-04 11:20:44 · answer #7 · answered by Citizen Justin 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Perhaps if I truly felt I'd experienced it, I would BELIEVE...but I wouldn't like it. Whether or not God is real, I have no intentions of ever being his willing servant. You'll never find me in a church or reading the Bible unless I'm forced to.
2007-10-04 11:18:53 · answer #8 · answered by Stardust 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe in Hell either, I agree with you. I'd just think some christian dogma entered my brain somehow...and I'd pull away from it even further.
2007-10-04 11:13:38 · answer #9 · answered by Meatwad 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, but such an image would tell me that SOME part of my brain things I'm doing something "wrong" in my life, and is using that concept that I was indoctrinated with. Kinda like "Flatliners".
2007-10-04 11:14:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋