Tamir's 'thought experiment': unlike the Judeo-Christian view of a perfect world and imperfect humans with a divine spark, Gnostic mythology holds that creation on Earth was a cosmic disaster, that Sophia is trapped in our souls, and that a ruling god keeps us in a 'flesh prison' we must escape. He uses it to show that every belief system, atheism included, is a choice about how to face death.
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- Every belief about death is a choice
Faced with death's cliff, everyone picks a mythology to make sense of it. Even atheism is a decision about what to believe.