Is believing that your loved ones go to some spiritual pie in the sky just an example of being stuck in the..?

Question

bargaining stage of grief or do they even make it past the denial stage?

Denial (this isn't happening to me!)

Anger (why is this happening to me?)

Bargaining (I promise I'll be a better person if...)

Depression (I don't care anymore)

Acceptance (I'm ready for whatever comes)

Southpaw...Scrubs rocks!!

Answer 1

Have you ever lost anyone close to you?
Which stage are you stuck in?
One can get stuck in any stage and digress then move forward for a while only to digress again.....it's never over.

Answer 2

For some people I'm sure it is. But there are valid reasons for faith beyond just wishful thinking.
To list a few from Christians:

Over five hundred witnesses who saw Jesus after his death.

Jesus fulfillment of prophesy after prophesy from the old testament.

The accounts by the apostles themselves.

References about Jesus and his follower in records outside of scripture, such as Roman correspondence and historical accounts.

The execution of thousands of people who either knew Him personally or knew those who knew Him when all they had to do was deny the belief in His being God. Again, many of these accounts are recorded outside of the bible by people who were not Christians.

The fact that no one could produce the body of Christ to show he had not risen from death. (And if you say the body was stolen so they couldn't you then will have to explain how a rag tag group of followers were able to get past a group of one hundred trained Roman soldiers to do it.)

Answer 3

Is this intended to be a rhetorical question? Well, if anything, it certainly is arrogant… or is that the way you’ve always interpreted the scriptures?: A “spiritual pie in the sky.” I’ll bet you think hell is like a picnic, situated along the periphery of a tropical landscape. At your rate, you better be hoping it is.

Answer 4

It could be, but that fails to take into account all those billions who believe before a loved one dies or long after they've reached the "acceptance" phase of grief over a death of a loved one.

Hey, if you're going to bash religion, just bash it. This kind of weird psycho-babble trip is just corny...

Answer 5

People who die do not go straight to either Heaven or Hell. That won't happen until Judgment Day. I don't know why people think that their loved ones are in Heaven. The Bible never says that.

Answer 6

Good recovery, which one did you choose! Ok...
What if they were Scientheists and believed their family to be merely repell/attract reactions of universal anatomy molecules, causing their heartbeat (also the soul) to beat at every repell/attract reaction, and eventually diffuse its repell/attract reaction when earth's axis and gravity shift, and fail its magnetic process, thus causing them to extinct their magnetic reaction and, die.
Don't these people have no profound respect for their family's existence other than for them believing themselves being science creatures and thus only having scienctific potentials.
I believe these people believe their family members return to universal molecules.

Answer 7

perhaps.......
I dont have a bargaining stage nor a depression stage anymore.........so many things have happened that the acceptance stage comes more quickly now.....

Answer 8

It is a coping mechanism. That is what religion is. Religion is a way to cope with the bad things in life.

Answer 9

Basic psychology

Answer 10

Actually, I think it's more of an example of being stuck in the Bronze Age.