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Originally posted by Clarkey@Feb 22 2005, 12:31 PM
This question may be a bit harsh, and I apologize if it is, but what do you believe would happen if say, heaven forbid, your child or wife died? Where would they go?
I cannot accept that my friends and family members that have died are simply rotting in the ground. Don't you have to have some hope that there is a God and something else beyond this life or what really is the point of it all.
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no apologies required Clarkey. I guess the easiest answer is what is left of our bodies does indeed rot in the gorund...if buried...our memories of those who have passed is what keeps them alive.
The other question is....why is there a need to have a heaven and hell? Or why is there a need to have an alternate plane of existence?
Humanist response as above...
They feel that religious groups' "promises of immortal salvation or fear of eternal damnation are both illusory and harmful."
In reality it is always what we think of, talk about or pass from generation to generation that keeps that persons memory alive.