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<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A new very short video that features retired federal judge Paul Warner has now been posted by the Interpreter Foundation. \u00a0Drawn from the Interpreter Foundation\u2019s 2022 docudrama <em>Undaunted: Witnesses of the Book of Mormon<\/em>, it is entitled \u201cThey Never Denied Their Testimonies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you enjoy it, I hope that you will share it further.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33045\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33045\" style=\"width: 597px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/04\/747px-BD_Ani_before_Osiris.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-33045\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/04\/747px-BD_Ani_before_Osiris.jpg\" alt=\"From the papyrus of Ani\" width=\"597\" height=\"479\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33045\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The deceased Ani kneeling for judgment before an enthroned Osiris (facsimile of the original \u201cPapyrus of Ani\u201d dating to roughly 1300 BC) \u00a0(Wikimedia Commons public domain image )<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I\u2019ve been slowly reading through Robert Christopher Coppes, <em>Impressions of Near-Death Experiences: Quotations from Over 100 Experiencers<\/em> (Durham, NC: International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). \u00a0Dr. Coppes, a Dutch researcher, has compiled a great many quotations from the accounts of other people, both published and unpublished, and arranged them by themes or categories. \u00a0Here is his introductory summation of the famous NDE \u201clife review\u201d for a chapter that is dedicated to that topic.<\/p>\n<p>I found it quite clear, but also worthy of reflection. \u00a0We will all, it seems, experience a life review. \u00a0What do we want it to be like? \u00a0How do we want it to go? \u00a0It\u2019s not, it seems, entirely out of our control:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>During their NDEs, some people have a life review, and frequently this occurs in the presence of the Light. \u00a0A life review comes in many forms. \u00a0Some experiencers see their life as a film in fast-forward mode. \u00a0Some see flashes or pictures. \u00a0Some feel that these are memories of events. \u00a0The overall feeling is described as \u201cthis is you.\u201d \u00a0The smallest details are perfectly clear.<\/p>\n<p>The life review is a refresher. \u00a0NDErs say that they\u2019ve got to remember their place in the grand universal scheme and the purpose that they had on Earth \u2014 or, rather, that they still have, considering that all NDErs have returned to continue their earthly lives.<\/p>\n<p>The life review also refreshed experiencers\u2019 memories in another way: \u00a0It enabled them to be conscious of virtually all events of their lives and of the effect they had on others. \u00a0This consciousness came in a very interesting way: \u00a0They remembered these events not only as themselves but also as actually being the other people involved. \u00a0In other words, they saw their own lives from both their own point of view and also from the viewpoint of everyone else. \u00a0For instance, when they did something nice for someone else, they actually felt that person\u2019s happiness. \u00a0This was not an experience of \u201cas <em>if<\/em> they were the other person\u201d but of \u201cthey <em>actually were<\/em> the other person.\u201d \u00a0Likewise, when they harmed someone else, they felt that person\u2019s pain as that other person.<\/p>\n<p>One woman once shared her candy with a school friend. \u00a0It was right after World War II in the Netherlands, and candy back then was a rare luxury. \u00a0During her life review, she felt the gratitude and happiness of her friend. \u00a0Being her friend, she felt how thrilled her friend was to be considered worthy enough to receive that candy. \u00a0She was surprised that the feeling of extreme happiness didn\u2019t stop with the friend but extended to everyone with whom the friend subsequently interacted, such as the friend\u2019s mother and, to her amazement, even beyond. \u00a0In a very strange way, she felt that her kind gesture rippled further, to places she could not have previously imagined. \u00a0(87-88)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_86698\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86698\" style=\"width: 596px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2020\/07\/ym9s41tyee5q769gfrge.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-86698\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2020\/07\/ym9s41tyee5q769gfrge.jpg\" alt=\"Bald Mountain, etc.\" width=\"596\" height=\"447\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-86698\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bald Mountain, Reids Peak, and Mirror Lake, in Utah\u2019s Uinta Mountains<br>(Wikimedia Commons public domain photo by Louis Arevalo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I briefly alluded in a blog entry two days ago to the recent article in <em>The Times<\/em> (of London) about Hannah Neeleman and Ballerina Farm. \u00a0(See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2024\/08\/the-church-in-recent-media.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cThe Church in Recent Media.\u201d<\/a>) \u00a0Here are two more articles on the topic, both from the <em>Deseret News<\/em>, of which I especially like the second:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.deseret.com\/opinion\/2024\/08\/01\/ballerina-farm-controversy-hannah-neeleman\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cPerspective: The real reason for Ballerina Farm\u2019s popularity:\u00a0It\u2019s easier to project our dreams onto someone else than to live out those dreams ourselves\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.deseret.com\/faith\/2024\/08\/02\/media-misrepresentation-of-ballerina-farms-hannah-neeleman\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cUnfair media portrayals \u2014 not a rich family life \u2014 are erasing Hannah Neeleman\u2019s true identity:\u00a0The messiness of family life is part of something bigger that can\u2019t be captured when we only understand sacrifice as oppression.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_83154\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-83154\" style=\"width: 596px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2020\/02\/1920px-Gulag_Location_Map.png\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-83154\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2020\/02\/1920px-Gulag_Location_Map.png\" alt=\"Soviet concentration camps\" width=\"596\" height=\"408\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-83154\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map of the Gulag forced labor system in the former Soviet Union, showing concentration camps with over 5000 prisoners. \u00a0Conditions could potentially have been really, really unpleasant. \u00a0However, since no religion or religious expression was permitted in them, few of their inmates ever voiced any complaint. \u00a0(Wikimedia Commons public domain image)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>My continuing quest to share materials with you from the <em>Christopher Hitchens Memorial \u201cHow Religion Poisons Everything\u201d File<\/em>\u2122 can, at times, be both daunting and frustrating. \u00a0Why? \u00a0Because there\u2019s so much <em>in<\/em> the <em>Hitchens File<\/em>, and so much that is added every single day, that I can\u2019t even <em>begin<\/em> to keep up. \u00a0(Think of me, in that regard, as something of a martyr, slaving selflessly away for <em>you<\/em>, dear reader.) \u00a0In any case, here\u2019s a recent item from the <em>Hitchens File<\/em> that I\u2019ve retrieved for your pleasurable indignation: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news-ca.churchofjesuschrist.org\/article\/church-contributes--2-million-to-toronto-rsquo-s-daily-bread-food-bank\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cChurch Contributes $2 Million to Toronto\u2019s Daily Bread Food Bank: Donation will help thousands of Torontonians facing food insecurity\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, there was a complaint over on the Peterson Obsession Board a few weeks ago to the effect that I imagine, quite falsely, that my citing a few (hundred) examples of theism and theists doing good completely refutes all of the late Christopher Hitchens\u2019s arguments against religion.<\/p>\n<p>But I imagine absolutely nothing of the kind. \u00a0Pointing out examples of how religion often improves things merely refutes his hyperbolic and obviously false claim that \u201creligion poisons everything.\u201d \u00a0(All that is required to demonstrate that not all crows are black is one white crow. \u00a0And I\u2019ve furnished far more than a single white crow.) \u00a0As for the rest of his claims, well, of course, a large majority of <em>them<\/em> are <em>also<\/em> false, and I\u2019ve written (but mostly not yet published) quite a number of pages <em>demonstrating<\/em> their falsehood. \u00a0My major public foray, thus far, into refuting Mr. Hitchens\u2019s onetime best-selling book <em>god is Not Great<\/em> came in my 2014 remarks at the annual FAIR conference, which were entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=slQEE1BAqmA\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cGod and Mr. Hitchens\u201d or, more accurately and with a nod to his own exotic orthography, \u201cGod and mr. hitchens.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from Depoe Bay, 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