Friends were anxious to learn if I had had a near-death experience, and if so, what effect it had had on my longstanding public atheism. (Daniel Dennett)

Friends were anxious to learn if I had had a near-death experience, and if so, what effect it had had on my longstanding public atheism.

Daniel Dennett

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