atheism is irrational - it's believing in things despite the evidence

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evidence for God and the supernatural exists

you could make the case that the supernatural exists beyond a preponderance of the evidence. yet, despite this, atheists are atheists and have faith in nothing. 

i'm referring to the every day definition of the word atheists, those who believe God does not exist. atheists as simply a-theist, without God, another definition, is at least plausible. those types are more like agnostics anyway, which is also plausible. 

most atheists are ignorant, but i dont see too many who change their views when presented with evidence, so it's mostly a problem with being irrational. 
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Nope, going to that link and reading the post, most of it is new sources and unverified testimonials

So I then went to that NDE website... and uh, 90% of are articles written by a dude named Kevin Williams. A dude with a computer tech degree, and a book compiling testimony... and a complete lack of peer reivewed evidence to support his claim. This is literally in the very FIRST scientific article cited in the website titled "evidence". 
"In all of the cases that we have described in this paper, the experiencer reported all three features that we discussed earlier as having the most relevance for the question of survival of consciousness: normal or enhanced mentation when the physical body is ostensibly unconscious, seeing the physical body from a different position in space, and perceiving events beyond the normal range of the physical senses. We believe that when these three features occur together, they provide convergent evidence that at least suggests that consciousness can function independently of the physical body and hence may survive the death of that body. We emphasize that such evidence is only suggestive. No matter how serious their condition, persons reporting NDEs were in fact still alive in some sense, since their bodies were still functioning sufficiently to be revived. NDEs can therefore never provide conclusive evidence concerning what may happen to consciousness when the brain and body are no longer revivable."
And even THIS is given an extremely small sample of 14 cases. 

All in all, even the methodological findings and evidence of the cases reported in the paper are suspect - its a bunch of crap.
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I was atheist for most of my life so it does happen that views can be changed. Now I have more spirituality in the tip of my dick,than most people do in their entire bodies.
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Why didn't God cure smallpox? Smallpox is estimated to have killed more than 300 million people since 1900 alone

“The word God is for me nothing but the expression of and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of venerable but still rather primitive legends,” the message reads. “No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change anything about this.”  Albert Einstein 1954
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This thread belongs in the religion section; not the politics section.
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you could make the case that the supernatural exists beyond a preponderance of the evidence. yet, despite this, atheists are atheists and have faith in nothing. 
If you had the preponderance of the evidence you wouldn't need faith.

Really curious to hear this evidence for the supernatural you claim to have.

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Would you like this moved to the religion category?
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atheism is irrational