I don't know what you are aiming at with this topic. Is it the question of the afterlife? You don't have to believe in any god to believe in an afterlife. There are godless ideas of the afterlife like in the movies "Beetlejuice" and "Defending Your Life" - they are as likely and as credible as the afterlife found in the Bible, Koran, Illiad, and other mythological books. I even heard that Tarantino believes in reincarnation although he is an atheist.
But I also have not noticed that the belief in the afterlife brings significant solace to religious people who are mortally ill. They even seem more disturbed as they fear that they will go to hell.
But I also have not noticed that the belief in the afterlife brings significant solace to religious people who are mortally ill. They even seem more disturbed as they fear that they will go to hell.
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"
