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It is fundamentally opinion-based. You have obviously expended enormous energy to assuage your fear of consequences in the next life. I respect that - your emotional involvement is quite evident. May I point out the following: Your own reductionist reasoning is circular at the top as well - in (negatively) not assuming God's existence you implicitly, POSITIVELY, assume His non-existence. Your use of Ockham's Razor fails to account for built-in prejudice. There is no such thing as neutrality - yours is pretended and the product of the cumulative experiences that comprise your noetic make-up.

Is there a needle embedded in this haystack?

People pretend they are neutral and do not account for their build-in prejudices. I've pounded that home over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over again.

Even in their independent, ostensibly reductionist obserations.

The poster to whom that was addressed has all the marks of a great leader: condescension, disrespect, etc. I do not believe, in all my time on FR, I have ever encountered a more rude and obnoxious know-it-all. He is to be pitied. With him, it's "my way or the highway". I don't expect everyone to agree with me. But I try to respect and love others with whom I disagree as my fellow human beings. He insulted me personally many times, and probably (given his admitted background) lacks sufficient background in social grace to apologize. Taking that latter into account, I won't hold it against him. Pity is the proper response.