RE: Fear of hell, advice please
March 7, 2018 at 1:50 am
(This post was last modified: March 7, 2018 at 1:52 am by Fake Messiah.)
Also like I tried to explain NDE is big industry in US that is predominantly Christian, Muslims are not that much into NDE, just like some Christian denominations are into Marian apparitions and reliquies from angels while other denominations don't care about it.
Americans are also interested in reincarnation so therefore there are also vivid memories and books about it. One of the best examples is Virginia Tighe who was the poster child for "past life regression" in the 1950s when, under hypnosis, she spoke of being the reincarnation of a 19th century Irish woman named Bridey Murphy. Her story was published in a bestseller book, The Search for Bridey Murphy, in 1956 and was a sensation, becoming a best seller. A Hollywood movie was made the same year. Suddenly everyone believed in reincarnation and in hypnotic past life regression.
Now what's interesting about Tighe is that she never believed a word of the reincarnation story and even refused to give permission for her name to be used in the book, so it used a fake name. And yet despite all that millions of people believed it was true, because they want to believe and therefore rationalize that, although she said it's a lie made up by her doctor, it must be true and kept buying the book.
Or the one that's making rounds now James Leininger, born in April 1998, is the subject of books and TV shows and countless articles citing him as proof of reincarnation, bolstered by an assailable mountain of "undeniable proof".
Americans are also interested in reincarnation so therefore there are also vivid memories and books about it. One of the best examples is Virginia Tighe who was the poster child for "past life regression" in the 1950s when, under hypnosis, she spoke of being the reincarnation of a 19th century Irish woman named Bridey Murphy. Her story was published in a bestseller book, The Search for Bridey Murphy, in 1956 and was a sensation, becoming a best seller. A Hollywood movie was made the same year. Suddenly everyone believed in reincarnation and in hypnotic past life regression.
Now what's interesting about Tighe is that she never believed a word of the reincarnation story and even refused to give permission for her name to be used in the book, so it used a fake name. And yet despite all that millions of people believed it was true, because they want to believe and therefore rationalize that, although she said it's a lie made up by her doctor, it must be true and kept buying the book.
Or the one that's making rounds now James Leininger, born in April 1998, is the subject of books and TV shows and countless articles citing him as proof of reincarnation, bolstered by an assailable mountain of "undeniable proof".
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
