This isn’t any big surprise. At 81 he MUST be wondering what comes next. It’s easy to be an “athiest” when you are young and “bulletproof”.
There HAS to come a time when everyone wonders what happens after we die. If the “athiests” are right- we die and that’s all. Everything we did, everything we were means nothing. If the “NewAgers” are right, we reincarnate or join some “universal conscienceness”...or something...
Christians are the only ones who believe we have to account for the choices we make and that we answer to Someone. I understand that can be scary. And Christianity IS the only faith that says we WILL pay for those choices. It’s tough to imagine that there is actually something, or Someone, more important than precious little you.
Actually, in an interview with Lee Strobel, Flew emphatically denies *any* interest in an afterlife. He simply rejects it as an appalling idea -- eternal punishment *and* eternal reward. He simply wants his existence to end when he dies.
Not exactly the victory many Christians seem to be claiming.