The problem with the promise of any glorious afterlife is that people tend to focus on that, instead of keeping their focus on this life. People have given up family and friends and their own health, just for the promise of heaven. People have followed the worst cult leaders of all time - and drank the koolaid - for the promise of heaven. If this life is misery and you believe you'll wake up after death in paradise - well then, ONLY the threat of hell for committing suicide would make people not take their own lives. Oh yes, it's an insidious, dangerous lie.
And then there are the cringe-worthy platitudes people give each other at funerals . . .
And then there are the cringe-worthy platitudes people give each other at funerals . . .
"The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children."- Albert Einstein
