I've been subscribing on and off to Free Inqui ry for several years.  However, I never get much of a chance to read it, the issues piled up and, because I had for the first time in a long time read all the Time , National Geographic, Scientific American , and a few other mags, just happened to pick up a 2015 issue of  FI headlined as The Myth of an Afterlife . This bimonthly treats: Common themes such as   separation of church and state ,   science and religion , dissemination of freethought, and   applied philosophy . Regular contributors include well-known scholars in the fields of science and philosophy. For the next few Sundays I'll feature articles from this publication.  First, a contribution by the editor, Tom Flynn, the Introduction to The Myth of an Afterlife : He went to Amazon.com Books Department to search for the keyword afterlife, and found 9,209 results.   The first page yielded only books about the afterlife.  There was not one skeptical view.  Most of them

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