No, some people who claim this are just brainwashed. Some are ignorant, some stupid, some cultured with the belief and never questioned it, some are insane, and some are so terrified at the reality of death that they'd cling to anything--even in the face of evidence the belief is untrue--so as not to have to contemplate their own nonexistence.
OK, now I see the source of your dogmatism.
257 posted on 11/18/2005 11:31:22 AM PST by Aquinasfan
(Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)