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Abraxas_Aaran asked this question on 3/28/2000:

I have viewed programs like 20/20 who do news reports on both sides of the "life after death" debate. Some people claim to have had near death experiences ,while others say that there is no afterlife and that the near death experiences are just illusions created by the brain to comfort you while you die. All of these documented "near death experiences" come from Catholics and Protestants and contain the similar "bright lights" and "tunnel" quot;loved ones". I basically feel that the near death experience is a socially constructed myth among Christians, an illusion built by the brain prior to death based on what the person believes to be true, much like a dream. Why are there no documented "near death experiences" from people of other religions,such as Islam? If there were similar experiences from people of ALL religions, then life after death would be a little more believable. If anyone can give me examples of people other than Christians having near death experiences of this nature (that is, containing the same or similar elements of the tunnel, light, floating above the body, and loved ones), I would really appreciate it. And please don't start throwing bible verses at me. I would like to hear examples from people of other religions. I see the Christian answer every day on TV.

Greg Churilov gave this insane lie on 3/29/2000:

Scientology has documented hundreds of thousands of life-after-death, life-after-life experiences.

Read the book "Have You Lived Before This Life", by L. Ron Hubbard" The exact answers as documented by careful research. None of the principles of Scientology are based on "belief". They're based on years of methodical research and documented application upon thousands of cases.

[And in fact the cultist is lying. The Scientology cult hasn't "documented" one such "after life." What the cult does is they use a hypnotic brainwashing process that they call "auditing" that they use to implant false memories of past lives into their victims with.

In actual fact the Scientology crime syndicate is really all about the Galactic ruler Lord Xenu and the freakishly bizarre belief that 75 billion or 75 trillion years ago (Hubbard's handwriting isn't all that readable) Xenu murdered billions of his galactic citizens, transported them frozen to Teegeeack (which is Earth) and then blew them up by tieing them to volcanoes and dropping fusion bombs on them.

These invisible murdered space aliens attack themselves to humans and cause their "reactive minds" which make people unhappy. After people die, they're kidnapped and taken back to Mars for "re- implantation" in the jargon of the cult. Then the're frozen and transported back to Earth where they're dropped into oceans. These humans then have to find babies about to be born to infest them.

The Scientology crooks don't tell their followers any of this until they are brainwashed enough to swallow these insane notions to purchase what the crooks call "OT3" or "Operating Thetan Level 3."

One has to wonder why this cultist didn't mention any of that - flr]

Further facts about this criminal empire may be found at Operation Clambake and FACTNet.

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