Re: MD Life after death?

From: Steve Peterson (peterson.steve@verizon.net)
Date: Wed Mar 12 2003 - 17:16:17 GMT

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Hi Platt, Sam, all

I think it is a pretty common misconception in our Christian influenced
culture to think that religion was created to make us feel comfortable about
death. That has become one of its functions, but it is not it's historical
basis. Judaism, for example, did not include a concept of an afterlife
until near Jesus' time. I think in Gilgamesh, the bartender Goddess type
character said something like, eat, drink, and be merry, because this short
life is all you get. Perhaps others know more about the historical role of
belief in an after life in world religions.

Thanks,
Steve

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