Reply #86: You are incorrect.

[Selwynn]

"First of all, I take issue with your use of the word "assert". The word "assert" means "to state or declare positively..." and when someone denies the existence of an afterlife, they are NOT making the positive statement."

This is simply not a truth of english language. Unfortunately for you, in english language someone denying the existence of an afterlife is saying "there is no afterlife." Period. It is a postive declaration of which any reasonable person is justified in demaning an explanation, i.e proof.

That is why agnosticism is the only purely logically justifiable position. I don't know if there is or is not an afterlife, and neither do you, and in fact there is no actual way to know one way or the other with any degree of certainty, becuase it is outside the realm of things for which we can make ratioanl affirmations or have empirical evidence.