Some time ago an interesting interview on Rede Globo called our attention in their main program of entertainment on Sunday evenings, in which a famous scholar and owner of a respectable library declared to be atheist.

Although he is more than 90 years old, the interviewee said that considered unfortunate life being so short, as he understands, in the end all turns to nothing, a bunch of bags, something that has no sense at all.

Why such a cultured person, who has already read, according to his own words, about 7,000 books, can be so skeptical? I wonder if he imagines that the complex structure of the Universe and the fabulous subatomic world were developed by chance. Won’t he see in the abundance of the plants and the diversity of the animals something beyond the matter?

Atheism, as we know, shows in the world small number of followers, but they exist. Certainly, in the conditions we live, there shouldn’t be room for such small and poor conception of things, but what can we do?

We said that there should not be defenders of Atheism because this conception constituted just one of the stages – the first one – of the religious history of mankind. As J. Lubboch teaches, it is divided into six periods: 1^st – atheism; 2^nd – witchery; 3^rd – Cult of nature; 4^th – shamanism (religion of shamans, professional witches); 5^th – anthropomorphism; 6^th – belief in God.

Saying that one is atheist means, thus, an old-fashioned position and has no relation to those who are supposedly cult, who should understand, according to Science that every effect has a cause and, therefore, the man, as an effect, could have not been created by himself. The existence of a Creator, so, is imposed, whatever name it may be given.

To consider short the length of the human existence is a mistake produced by the lack of observation of facts, because death is a fact of physical nature linked only to the material body, not reaching the soul. The latter, as it has been attested by the “dead” themselves, keeps on living, studying, progressing, what was revealed in researches done by bright scholars such as William Crookes, Ernesto Bozzano, César Lombroso, and Alexandre Aksakof among others.

If cultural prejudice does not allow the individual to be aware of these researchers and their results, it would be convenient if at least the atheist had enough good sense to say: I wish I could believe in immortality, but unfortunately I haven’t had access to this information”, adding the reasons why he did not succeed. After all, in a library of over 35, 000 books, as shown in the interview on Rede Globo, it is unacceptable that any of the works related to the scientific Spiritism is not there.

Of course that, not admitting anything beyond the matter, the followers of Atheism consider the human life to be a nonsense, because, let’s face it, had death been the end of all, there would be no reason for us to be here.

Death is not, though, the end of everything. It is just a necessary step among our countless existences in this and other planets along the infinite space.