The Atheist and the Near Death Experience

The Atheist and the Near Death Experience: "A.J. Ayers gives a pretty obvious demonstration that atheism is ultimately a phenomenon rooted in the will, rather than the intellect.

The guy seems to have been caught in a sort of psychological riptide after his encounter with the Divine Being. He acknowledges it, denies it, becomes a nicer person, hangs out a lot with a priest, tells people he converted the priest to atheism (a claim for which there is zero evidence), and has his little secular funeral. I hope that somewhere in there he opened the door a crack to the grace he briefly acknowledged. But, come on, does the guy appear to be a rational actor whose mind is solely controlled by reason? He appears to me to be an academic martinet who just can't bear to admit he was wrong. A huge intellect is like wealth--and how hard it is for the rich man to enter the kingdom of God.

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