To be firmly and insistently ('hardcore') atheist suggests to me ruling out the idea that there is anything diety-like, because there is no good evidence for it

To be firmly and insistently ('hardcore') atheist suggests to me ruling out the idea that there is anything diety-like, because there is no good evidence for it. The question of experience after death seems to me very similar to the question of the existence of dieties. The fact that beliefs about dieties and about the afterlife are usually linked in the same belief structure increases my confidence that the two subjects are often reasoned about the same way. I would therefore expect someone who thinks, after considering all evidence (or the lack thereof), that there are no dieties to also believe, based on similar evidence (or lack thereof) that there is no experience after death. Harris has not (as far as I know) said that "we don't know" if there are dieties. Indeed, here's an old interview where Harris criticizes agnosticism as "not an intellectually honest position": http://web.archive.org/web/20100313075830/http://www.truthdig.com/report/page4/20060403_sam_harris_interview/?/interview/page4/20060403_sam_harris_interview/ http://web.archive.org/web/20100313075830/http://www.truthdi...