Tag: ask an atheist

Survival of bodily death, spirits, ghosts, reincarnation — these are part of our human history, but with some important caveats.

Recalling that roughly 45 percent of the American people are Young Earth creationists who don't accept that there was a Big Bang, here's the go for the rest who do pay attention to the science.

They've all been thoughtful and honest, though occasionally carrying implicit assumptions that I have attempted to unpack as best I can.

All the atheists I know of don't believe in afterlives either, but I'm not aware of surveys on this insofar as nonbelievers are concerned generally.

I won't speak for all atheists, but will say definitely parts of the Bible reflect actual history.

It is true that natural human societies have religious beliefs.

I don't know any historian of note who has the slightest that Muhammad existed, and I'm not aware of any who doubt the historicity of Buddha either.