Ladies and gentlemen, I just received an amazing series of questions all the way from France.

And this one email that I received has so many questions in it, interesting questions,

that I'm going to take this entire show

to interact with and attempt to answer. So let me get right into it. I won't read the entire

email at once. I'll read sections because this woman who writes in goes from one topic to another, but I'll tell you where she

stopped speaking and my response. So let's jump right in. This comes from a lady by the name of

Sev. She says, I'm 43, female, mother of true grown-up girls, and three times divorcee, sadly, remarried now. I live in France and both French and

Australian and was raised in complete atheism, no religion, no spirituality, no deity,

no afterlife, nothing but hard maths, science, and materialism.

All right.

Let me stop right here.

Very insightful that she is very specific about what she was taught.

I think many people may have been taught materialism and didn't even know what to call it.

It's just sort of the water we swim in in the West. Anyway, she goes on to say

this. However, I've struggled my whole life with the fear of death. A death, or as death to me,

means a black void of nothingness, no consciousness and no continuity.

This fear has caused me to seek out other alternatives, but my hard background, which taught me that everything is just stardust and air, the materialist slash Darwinist education

I received, makes it very challenging, read impossible thus far, to believe in someone resurrecting

Jesus or in miraculous deeds. I'm one of those atheists who needs to see in order to believe.

I regret this. I wish I wasn't like this, but to be honest, I am. And I haven't yet managed to fool myself into believing something I've never actually sincerely found believable.

In my quest for reassuring answers to my fear, I came across and read your book, I don't have enough faith to be an atheist.

I agree with you that Jesus existed

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