We don't die because of sin; we die because death is a necessary corollary of multicellular life (cf Ursula Goodenough, "The Sacred Depths of Nature"). We're cruel to each other sometimes because we're animals and finite beings, but we have the capacity to better ourselves. What if we could just be happy on this earth? What if we could believe that there is a soul which survives the death of our body, but that instead of migrating to some transcendent place of bliss or torture, it returns to the earth in another form or lives with our ancestors and the spirits of the world? Does Christianity maintain its hold on us by creating a fictitious sickness for which it claims it has the only cure?
2007-02-12
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