(March 5, 2017 at 4:34 pm)Whateverist Wrote: From a simple, uneducated point of view an afterlife is very intuitive. No one can recall a time in which they did not exist. That isn't to say one cannot infer or deduce that that day will come. But go back 500 or 5000 years and I'm pretty sure the general consensus would be that there must be somewhere where people go when they no longer live in this life. Most would probably assume animals would continue in some kind of existence beyond becoming dinner too. It isn't that hard to imagine.
Of course the fundamentalist xtian schtick of judgement followed by eternal reward or punishment is a whole other animal. Pretty absurd but it is an elaboration upon an intuition which predates it by far. Essentially they've just hijacked something pre-existing.
Oh but as for logic, forget it. Any degree of reflection and critical thought will soon put the lie to an afterlife.
The Sadducees did not believe in an afterlife.
