(November 17, 2021 at 3:54 pm)Ten Wrote: "(Dead relative) is up in heaven, watching over you, waiting for you to join them."
I know what this is trying to say, trying to impart some uplifting, hopeful message. But it struck me today when I saw someone say something along these lines that it's actually really chilling. Like, sometimes, I'm like, okay, Christianity is trying really hard to give this "you're not alone" "death is not the end" intention. Other times, it feels almost like a wed to death religion, where death is glorified, death is aspirational, the end of everything is triumph in itself. And it's very creepy and malevolent. But I include it here in the stupid things because I think they're mostly ignorant of how their wish for the deaths of everyone could be interpreted as an evil thing.
I would hope that IF my dead relatives were conscious and aware somewhere in a parallel existence that 1. We might have more to do/more going on than simply watching the still living, rather than being obsessed with and consumed by the previous state of existence. And 2. I would hope that they wouldn't be eagerly waiting for me to die just so we could be together again. With the implications of point number 1, it would be like, "hurry up and get here so we can watch everyone still going at it and eagerly wish for them to join us too." Maybe that's another one of those "Christianity is actually a demon-worshipping religion masquerading as righteous in order to ensnare souls into a captive existence" where they let you know the truth with the unspoken logical conclusions. Because I think if watching the living is all that's going on in that afterlife, I could believe them getting twisted by a toxic madness and jealousy, hoping and hungering for their ungrateful loved ones to meet their ends as well.
Also, as far as Christians go, this is not in line with what the Bible says. The idea that a disembodied soul goes somewhere is borrowed from the Greeks. As far as Christian mythology goes, on the last day every person will be resurrected (a bodily resurrection). Then they'll go to God for judgment. God will either cast them into the fire or grant them eternal life. So, according to Christianity, nobody is watching over anybody from Heaven.