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Perhaps death was not quite the annihilation she had thought. Perhaps it was not so essential that her person or even memories of her person survived. Perhaps the important thing was that her ripples persist, ripples of some act or idea that would help others attain joy and virtue in life, ripples that would fill her with pride and act to counter t
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a discomfort with uncertainty that impels a compulsion to explain or account for every mystery under the sun.
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
The Reality of God and Historical Method: Apocalyptic Theology in Conversation with N. T. Wright (New Explorations in Theology)
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Christianity is an ego-preservation narrative. The very conception of an afterlife is a defense mechanism for eternal continuation of the self. If the entry ticket into Heaven is as simple as believing in Christ, then it enables a believer to go their whole life without actually living like Christ. While Christian myth helped us move from the pagan
... See morehe recognises here that the religious temperament at its best is seeking not its own survival or glorification, but an answer to an intolerable problem – the unrequited suffering of good and innocent people.