Debate: Life after death
Side: Yes, sure

Or do you choose to ignore these parts? An all-forgiving God is actually a very popular Christian belief. I'd have been surprised if there was nothing from the Bible supporting it.You emboldened this remark in a post where you also emboldened my words as a way of quoting them. Was this just a mistake? I humbly request that you please differentiate people’s quotes if there is more than one that you are referring to within a response. Not just for my sake, but so that people don’t misquote the people you dispute.In the grand scheme of everything that exists, whether it is supernatural, metaphysical, or natural, it just doesn't seem accurate to say that there is nothing realated to life after death on Earth.Indeed, there are things related to life after death, all of what’s been said here in this debate relates to the concept of life after death. The fact remains however, that there is no evidence to suggest such a thing actually exists, and the only way we will actually know is by… well… dying. If there is a life after death, then why do people mourn for the dead instead of celebrate their passing? Especially considering how horrible life on Earth can be? If there is a life after death, then why is it illegal to kill yourself? Of course the hope is there that this is not all there is, and that we can have a better existence when we die, but the attitudes of Humankind with regard to dying show me that there is an instinctual fear of dying, a fear that serves to encourage life over death, encourages survival over extinction, evolution over degradation. There is life after death in the literal sense when a person dies; there are people who continue to exist. From Cro-Magnon man to Einstein, the evolution of the species depended on this life after death that I speak of. Think not about what may or may not happen when we shuffle off this mortal coil, think of what we can do to advance the species now, at this moment. Religion has done nothing but encouraged a person to dwell on the concept of death throughout their life instead of doing productive things which could possibly benefit Humankind. And when it wasn’t stifling the evolution of the species, it was directly killing and discriminating people that went against the overconfident institution.Of course there is no evidence. It is purely hypothetical by nature, because if any afterlife does exist, it's not like there would be any Earthly proof of it.Why not? Because it is in an alternate realm? How do you know? Where is the criterion for your afterlife that specifically says that it is in an alternate realm? Or that an alternate realm does or can exist?Sure, you can look at it like that. But concepts like an afterlife (again, if it does exist) would never really be able to be proven our sciences that our world/universe can offer.For something to be considered a Truth there has to be evidence to prove its validity. The Truth of the matter is not incumbent upon the discovery of the proof, but the proof does have to exist for something to be considered a fact. If there are no means to prove that there is indeed an afterlife that the world/universe can offer, then how is it that such a concept even came to be? How is it that our ancient ancestors discovered the proof to the existence of an afterlife if they are within the world/universe where such a thing cannot be proven? Keep in mind that these are the same ancestors that believed that maggots were born out of rotted meat, and not the eggs laid by the adult flies. The same ancestors who believed the Earth was flat, and had corners. The same ancestors who believed that dinosaur fossils were God's way of testing our faith. The same ancestors that believed that their veiws on the world were inspired by God but have been proven time and time again to be wrong. Most valid according to our logic, which does not and should not consist of hypothetical reasonings about a so-called afterlife.Not according to “our” logic, but according to logic. And it has everything to do with reasoning, even in the hypothetical. Using logic, I reason to believe that there is no afterlife save for the life forms that persevere upon my death. Using logic, it stands to reason, that a person’s consciousness is a product of their brain due to the fact that a person can remain alive without a consciousness only to be considered “brain dead.” I realize that so much hope is built up of an afterlife, making it hard to let go of the concept. But the sooner people realize it, the sooner we will have a population of individuals striving to better their selves, and in turn better their species.