Feel free to provide a rebuttal, or modify your arguments to lend them even the faintest shred of credibility.
Also, the google ads up at the top are all for "GAY? CHRISTIAN?" "Gay Friendly Church" etc.
I lol'd.
Which brings up the question: What do good western christians see when they die? What about non western believers? Buddhists? Or, howabout non-western non-believers? Backslidden fearful buddhists? We don't know, because Shaw is so busy trying to scare us into his dogma that he doesn't bother providing any of these things. Most likely because they don't fit his clearly biased agenda. Ultimately, I'm giving this site a 1 because the presentation is lacking, (text and creepy music, ohsno) and flawed logic.
In all honesty, it makes more sense to me to presume (given the past two assumptions) that human death is accompanied by a psychological influx of fear, or perhaps a burning sensation/hallucinations. Occam's razor: It is more simple to believe that people freak out when their neurons are all misfiring than to believe that they are being dragged into a blood-slick portal to an alternate dimension of ultimate suffering by cackling horned demons. Plus, the imagery here is all very strictly judeo-christian...
Now, you love to talk causality, so let's look at that as well. ASSUMING that Shaw's account can be trusted, and ASSUMING that these deathbed accounts are accurate portrayals of a death experience, what can we assume? Very little. The Judeo-Christian account of Sheol, as written in the Bible is old. But not as old as Humanity itself. What came first, the chicken or the egg? Did the Bible accurately depict the afterlife, OR, did the Bible reflect commonly told anecdotes of death? Repackaged folk tales?
Secondly: Even if we were to presume that SB shaws accounts are accurate (Which would be preposterous, but let's assume), we still have to call into question these supposed deathbed accounts. First of all, this argument is based on the premise that a dying human being can be reasonably called upon to give a decent account of his experiences. That however, is a ridiculous notion. A dying man is not in his right mind, and indeed, his mind is physically shutting down along with the rest of his body.
Your logic here is critically flawed in presenting your argument. First off, you're relying solely on anecdotal evidence, from ONE source, this SB Shaw bloke. I've never heard of him, and neither has Wikipedia, but we can infer from the title of his work "Saved and Unsaved" that he is already biased in his writing. I don't by it just as I wouldn't give any credence to a work discussing abortion that was titled "Both Pro-Life and Anti-Life Viewpoints". There is no objectivity here.
Wow, 5'd for good original research, terrifying music, and quite frankly, I'm thrilled to see the ytmnd medium used for something other than one shot jokes and fads. Keep turning them out, sir.
Spanish flea is great, but you totally cant tell what your friend is saying. If the clip was better, I'd have pissed myself laughing, though. Good effort.
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