Stephen Hawking Sparks Outrage in Religious Community After Saying "Heaven is a Fairy Story" & There's "No Afterlife"

Professor Stephen Hawking riles religious community saying "heaven is a fairy story" and there's "no afterlife."

Professor Stephen Hawking has managed to tick off the religious community by saying "heaven is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark."He also said there is no afterlife and that "our brains switch off like broken down computers when we die."

Professor Hawking’s latest remarks came in an interview in which the theoretical physicist told how he had learnt to live in the shadow of death since being diagnosed with motor neurone disease aged 21. The disease, which is incurable, was expected to kill him within a few years. Instead, he said, it ultimately led him to enjoy life more.

The 69-year-old Cambridge University academic said: ‘I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. ‘I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first. ‘I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. ‘There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.’ Source

These are opinions, particularly about the afterlife. Unless, of course, has first hand knowledge of being dead, no-one knows what really happens after one dies, until your number is called up. Don't know why the religious right is getting bent out of shape because these are only opinions spewed by one man.