Then I'll stand happily "condemned". I've yet to be struck down for committing blasphemies while taking it's name in vain on occasions too numerous to count. Now I find it odd that either it is too busy to care(can't be, it knows our every thought and deed) or too soft to punish(can't be, it's a vengeful god). Just another one of those seemingly uncountable Bible contradictions. So my choice is to call it what it is, mostly a lot of poppycock.... Oh, and near-death and dead are not the same thing. When your dead....your dead, try it sometime if you don't believe me. LOL