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Athiests how do you explain stories of  children remembering details of their past life?

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  • 1 month ago
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    The technical term is "Confabulation".

    That's when a person genuinely believes something to be a true memory of their own experiences, when it's actually from their imagination or taken from a story.

    It is a well known and well documented effect and can happen to anyone.

    It's especially common in children and also people with memory problems, some types of mental illness or dementia.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    4 weeks ago

     I dont have to - YOU explain it

  • 4 weeks ago

    Utter baloney.  That's how.  

  • 4 weeks ago

    Atheists, not Athiests.

    The other stuff you wrote is dishonest nonsense and you know it.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    4 weeks ago

    It's called i-m-a-g-i-n-a-t-i-o-n. Children are highly subject to it. They also "remember" the time Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer visited them in their bedroom. What does this have to do with atheists?

    born again Christian biologist

  • 1 month ago

    This question has nothing to do with atheism. 

  • 1 month ago

    Well, that's a new one on me!

  • 1 month ago

    By the time the story is included in a book, more details are added to make it sell better. 

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 month ago

    No one can explain it, because there is NO such thing as a past life, it is written in God's word that you only live on earth once, after that, His judgment comes.

    The Bible says that it is appointed for us to die only once, after which comes judgment (Hebrews 9:27).

  • geezer
    Lv 7
    1 month ago

    Believing in reincarnation (even if it did exist) has nothing to do with religion.

    ''Religion'' says that you ''go to heaven''

    NOT that you are ''born again on Earth as someone else''.

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