Re: Life After Death
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You're not including the belief in an everlasting soul.
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Isn't "everlasting soul" just another way of saying you'll live forever? It still promises victory over the finality of death.
And what is the basis of this belief in everlasting life, whether it be bodily or just the soul? There is absolutely no reason to think humans can somehow conquer death, any more than there is reason to believe that the dead raccoon on the side of the road is enjoying eternal life in raccoon heaven right now.
Promising people eternal life just seems like the ultimate carrot on the stick. It seems almost too slick, as if simply saying "worship god because he created the universe and gave you life on earth" wouldn't be enough to get anyone to join.
How crowded would churches, mosques, and temples be if all the religions worshiped the same god they do now - except your only life is the 75 years or so you get on earth? After that, you're worm food. No heaven, no soul, no consciousness, no anything. They'd be almost empty, is my guess.
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