[Radarlove]

Jack,

"Nor do I see in the premise of atheism any reason why an atheist couldn't accept the idea of an afterlife.... the definition of atheism says nothing about it requiring a dependency on science."

I am a little confused by your comment. It appears that we are coming from the same page, so why the previous disagreements?

The evidence I have uncovered suggests, while an afterlife exists, there is no such God, deity, spiritual beings involved that religion states. It is simply another dimension in time and space. In some ways similar to Earth - in other ways quite different.

There is a fascinating book called Voyages into the Unknown written by Bruce Moen, an OOBE traveller, who explains that this next dimension is divided into different territories of belief systems, rather like Earth is broken up by different continents and countries.

One area is known as the religious belief system territory. This is where those who worship a particular God end up. So, the delicious irony is Christians, for example, who believe in Jesus, will have these beliefs mirrored back to them, thus confirming their religious creed all along. And further along there will be the territory for Muslims, Buddhists and so on.

Matter in this next dimension immediately creates and then mirror's back each person's belief systems at the time of their physical death. And why some atheists (oops, there's that word again) have difficulty initially embracing this new world, as their ego stops them from accepting it is real.