From Marx I have learned the necessity of asking whether a religion or a religious community functions to provide comfort through the hope of
a better afterlife, to justify unjust forms, or to stimulate the spirit of justice through which unjust forms are changed.
To achieve
a better afterlife, you do good in this world.
Or I may try to change the mind of a believer that thinks they are more moral, bound for
a better afterlife or a better citizen because of their beliefs.
The non-Roman citizens had little hope in life, but Christianity gave them hope for final justice and
a better afterlife.
If there is
a good afterlife after I die, bonus, but I am completely satisfied with just having the one life, and then it ending.
The foundation of christianity is that we all need salvation, stating that humans are all unworthy of anything
good an afterlife because of what suppposedly happened long before our time, or even the time that jesus supposedly did his preaching.
Christians and Muslims are two of the most largest religion, but it also the easiest to get in, easiest to archive your «right» to get in to
the good afterlife and have the easiest forgiven right.
Not exact matches
It's the community of pundits that can comment on them as
well so they have an
afterlife.»
Summary: «An Arizona woman enters the
afterlife and tries to become a
better person and make amends for past bad behavior in this comedy.»
Material items will not follow you into the
afterlife, so you might as
well declutter your home while you're still here.
A common message coming out of Calgary's convention of Conservatives is that Harper had
better start thinking about his political
afterlife.
If you don't believe in an
afterlife, or God for that matter,
well then it's just a function of gravity and weak interfactions so there's nothing to worry about.
Whether you believe in the
afterlife or not, or heaven or not, or reincarnation or not, I think we can all agree that the intended lesson is to do
good in this life in order to graduate successfully into the next.
Glen Beck is a Christian if you believe that saved means that we get to live in the
afterlife with a chance to have eternal life in the mansion where God the Father and Jesus Christ are if we are worthy enough by doing
good works to progress to be there and that God's grace comes after all we can do.
Third, if you are counting on some form of an
afterlife, you
better try to enjoy your present life to the max, every day you have it, because once you are dead, you are going nowhere but into the cold, dark ground.
yo the thing is not about believing or not, is the fact that if we don't believe then we are worthless living garbage who occupy a space in the universe only to create crap and pollution, in that kind of case we would
better be recycled into some industrial material for a
better use than eating and living like cattle, but if there is a god we acquire a divine status and a purpose to continue to exist beyond
afterlife or at least the idea of it, which would give life a sense right?
If god is so great and the
afterlife soooo much
better than real life, kill yourself.
There's a few nice things said about early Christians helping their neighbors and giving the poor hope that the
afterlife will bring them a
better existence, which is positive in a sort of back - handed way... I suppose.
Realize you should be
good for the sake of being
good and not because your will be rewarded in the
afterlife but that you will be rewarded in this life!
Different people deal with things in different ways, and there's no proof that there is no
afterlife or no God, and it is helping these devastated people in believing their lost children have gone to a
BETTER PLACE..
The Biblical accounts of God - to - human relationship and affairs going from the very obvious to the very mysterious, starting with creation and going through a multitude of stages, the fall, the expulsion and curse, trials and covenants, rebellion and Law, culminating with God's «Ultimate Provision» for Salvation, the «
Good News» of the Lord Jesus Christ, His only begotten Son, the «New Covenant,» the «Millennial Kingdom» to come, the end of time, and the
afterlife, are the basis for the Christian Theology on «Time Dispensations.»
You'd
better HOPE there's an
afterlife that's worth the sum of the lost opportunities you've had in this life.
If I choose to life a life of mostly sin and for myself as if there was not
afterlife and I'm wrong,
well I don't really want to think about that.
i am
good because i love life and my fellow humans beings and not for any reward in the
afterlife..
It is helpful to know that not all of God's blessings and promises are reserved for the
afterlife, but that many forms of deliverance and salvation are for this life as
well.
No dark secrets are revealed here, but Douglas - Fairhurst's account of Charles Dodgson / Lewis Carroll, the genesis of his masterwork, and its extraordinary
afterlife is the
best I have seen: lucid and refreshingly sane.
Well, ignoring your childish ad hominem, why would you kowtow before a shallow, vain and unjust god if it were not out of fear of punishment or greed for the
afterlife?
i do nt understand what religous people really believe is waiting for them in an
afterlife when we know for a fact that the body doesn't go there and the fact that animals apparently cant go to heaven because they have no soul is
well thats just
good old conceited man made rubbish that is everywhere in the bible and before i get attacked i was raised religious and got very religious for a few years till i actually thought about it and applyed logic to it after that the whole concept of religion made me feel sick
This life — A concern for this life (as opposed to an
afterlife) and a commitment to making it meaningful through
better understanding of ourselves, our history, our intellectual and artistic achievements, and the outlooks of those who differ from us.
I don't believe in God, but if there is a God and we meet in the
afterlife I have no doubt he'd pat me on the back and compliment me on how reasonable it was not to believe and that he was super impressed that I didn't need to be threatened by the fear of his retribution in order to lead a morally
good and happy life.
Regardless of what I hope for though, I do think the most likely, and perhaps
best available, outcome is no
afterlife.
Tonight I will sacrifice a chicken upon a pentagram altar and baptize Mitt Romney in blood so that he may serve my dark master Satan in the
afterlife (he's already doing pretty
good in his current life).
@Mark, I feel like the world would be a much
better place, if instead of hoping that they had believed in the right
afterlife, people hoped that they had lead a
good life, and tried to make sure that they did.
All belief systems of this time period have a place where people go but not a
good or bad place, just a place... some have a place where REALLY bad go but most just have the underworld type set - up as the
afterlife myth.
The contact with Zoroastrianism, which was the dominant religion within the Achaemenid Empire founded by Cyrus the Great, as
well as Hellenic thought led to incorporation of religious ideas from those cultures into Judaism, including the development of notions of an immaterial and immortal soul distinct from the body and a moralized
afterlife.
The key to the
Good Place, of course, was for our band of endearing scumbags to learn how to be «good,» and in that redemption, they'd end up on the positive side of the afterl
Good Place, of course, was for our band of endearing scumbags to learn how to be «
good,» and in that redemption, they'd end up on the positive side of the afterl
good,» and in that redemption, they'd end up on the positive side of the
afterlife.
For grasping the cultural fascination with heaven, perhaps nothing compares to two recent
best - selling novels about the
afterlife: Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones and Mitch Albom's The Five People You Meet in Heaven.
God is hearing every prayer, some he will accept from and give it to them on earth while some he will be repay them
afterlife while some he will completely ignore for they have ignored him when they were at
good times and only remember him when they are in distress only...
A non believer may very
well be frightened, we don't placate ourselves with an imaginary
afterlife to feel
better.
We should also teach them that Ma'at will weight their heart against a shu feather when they die and if their heart is heavier than the feather, it won't be a
good time for in the
afterlife.
this whole idea that god saves only shows the power of people to believe whatever and get over whatever... so you have no need for a one of the fav five god (flaming bush) with a foot fetish (no sandles please)... the childish concept of «BE
GOOD AND YOU GET AN
AFTERLIFE»
well thats just sad and a bit sickening to believe that some adults still believe in god... one could ask if santa ever saved them from a life crisis!
Jeff, if there is an
afterlife, my
best hope for it is that I don't have to spend it in the company of assholes like you.
But know that I asked TforT that because if there is no
afterlife, then everything is subjective and there is no bases for
good, right or wrong other than what the masses decide.
And since all
good things come from God (love, kindness, etc), their choosing to be separate from him follows them into the
afterlife when they go to he ll.
--- And if there is no
afterlife — why do
good?
The reason we «non-believers» have morals might have something to do with being a
good person, regardless of an
afterlife (or no
afterlife).
but GOD took them to live eternity with them... are you saying that life here on earth is
better than that
afterlife?
There are also agnostics, who believe that we don't know if there is a «God»; and there are theists, who believe that there is a higher power, but don't believe religion's claims that he / she / it interacts with us or directs our paths in an
afterlife; and there are people with no label to their beliefs, who believe that we are on our own here on Earth to make it as
good a place as we can.
Tell me that, if there is a God, he would deny an
afterlife to a person who lives a
good and just life, and accept a person who has led an evil life, and at the last moment begs forgiveness.
In the
afterlife, God can find ways in his infinitely creative wisdom to give everyone the
best opportunity to respond to the gospel.