RE: Comfort in Faith at Death
June 26, 2019 at 2:36 pm
(This post was last modified: June 26, 2019 at 4:17 pm by Pat Mustard.
Edit Reason: Fixing the Death quote
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Personally I can't see comfort for the most of the Abrahamic religious in believing of an after-world. Think of it, you've spent your whole life with the relgious bigwigs imposing a way of living and of thinking stricter than that of the Party's doublethink in Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Think about it, anybody who is reflective, or self critical or moral is going to be thinking "I could have done more, I could have been better, I broke so many rules". Terry Pratchett, IMO, had it right when he posited in one of the Discworld books that the evil and the unflinchingly certain will get heaven while the truly good will, at the very best, get a purgatory that's not quite 100% evil (per the Discworld rulebook, you get the afterlife you think you deserve).
As death says: THERE IS NO JUSTICE. THERE'S JUST ME.
Think about it, anybody who is reflective, or self critical or moral is going to be thinking "I could have done more, I could have been better, I broke so many rules". Terry Pratchett, IMO, had it right when he posited in one of the Discworld books that the evil and the unflinchingly certain will get heaven while the truly good will, at the very best, get a purgatory that's not quite 100% evil (per the Discworld rulebook, you get the afterlife you think you deserve).
As death says: THERE IS NO JUSTICE. THERE'S JUST ME.
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