Reply #107: What a loaded word [View All]

[Politicub]

There was no one moment of change but a gradual conclusion over recent months for Flew, a spry man who still does not believe in an afterlife.

Big word that, "still." Implies that the old man doesn't yet believe in an afterlife. Why, what an old fool! Still not believing in the afterlife.

If this article weren't being intellectually dishonest, then it would have left the word "still" from the sentence. i.e. "a spry man who does not believe in an afterlife."

This story bothers me -- and not because of an 81 year old philisopher I've never heard of espouses a belief in god. It appears to me to be more stoking of the flames between believers and non-believers. Pity.