Today is Resurrection day, the day commemorating Jesus’ reappearance from the grave.  Even with the changing landscape of church attendance and the reevaluation of some doctrines, some 82% of Americans still believe in the afterlife.  However, the writings of recent outspoken atheists, such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens, are laying the groundwork for significant doubt in the minds of those who are questioning their religious heritage.  Scientists contribute to the dilemma by being unable to recreate, in a controlled environment, the miracles documented by the Gospel writers, thereby denying their existence as fact.  Christian scholars, pastors and lay persons are mounting counterattacks in order to stabilize the church and revive foundering faiths.  For the most part, everything we believe is based upon a simple trust in the words of eyewitnesses from 2,000 years ago.  The human spirit is just that — spirit.  The root meaning for spirit is “breath.”   As long as we have breath, we have hope.  Life is too precious for it to end as nothingness.  Death is but a door.  The journey continues.  I’m going with the 82%.
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