On Nov 25, 2008, at 5:23 PM, Chris Doss wrote:
> I would think deathbed (re)conversions would be rather common. I
> dunno about you, but every time I've thought I might be near death I
> grasped at every straw, natural or supernatural, I could find.
Even for one with the very best prospect for success in the afterlife, religion offers no consolation at all at such a moment. Witness the last words of the Emperor Vespasian: "I fear I am becoming a god."
Shane Mage
> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos