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So people only join churches later in life because they are afraid of what will happen to themselves after death? So basically it's just the fear of death putting the fear of God into these people. You aren't making a very good case for religion in intellectual circles at all.
"but the second one of their loved ones dies, a rather large portion of them will all of the sudden say something like, "oh, well I know he/she is up in heaven looking down on me". I don't want to throw the flag and say all or even most atheists are like this, but in my life I've seen quite a few"
This is a common misconception. The truth of the matter is that atheists are all too often brought up in homes which believe such things as an afterlife. The fact that an atheist says something like this is his/her natural verbal response because they were brought up that way. Although it may be possible to shake the belief in a supernatural being or religion, it may be all but impossible to completely shake the culture that one was brought up with.
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