"But if you (and folks like you) was willin' to just admit that you don't KNOW fer sure whether there is an afterlife or not...then we'd have a basis for mutual respect. And this thread woulda never been launched...cos it was launched for one purpose: to ridicule other people for givin' consideration to a possibility that the OP didn't think deserved any respect."

1. L.H., you come off kind of...odd?...in putting what are obviously your own sincere strongly felt beliefs here through the "mouth" of a fictional half-crazy anthropomorphic chimpanzee.

2. If you read through the article which the original poster linked, you might see that he wasn't picking on some kid with thick glasses or red hair; he was shaking his head at a writer who was making exceptionally grandious claims about proving unprovable things, but who happens to be
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