“I saw a Divine Being. I'm afraid I'm going to have to revise all my various books and opinions.”

— Alfred Jules Ayer

A statement he made soon after recovering from his near-death experience, as reported by Dr. Jeremy George, in "Did atheist philosopher see God when he 'died'?" by William Cash, in National Post (3 March 2001) http://gonsalves.org/favorite/atheist.htm.

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English philosopher 1910–1989

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