Alan Meyer posted on Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:44:39 -0800 as excerpted: > I was brought up in a "Reform" Jewish congregation and was taught by my > rabbi that heaven and hell don't exist at all and there is no afterlife, > i.e., no such thing as paradise - though he was very circumspect about > how he phrased such thoughts, being careful not to offend believers who > disagreed with him.
I've always been a bit curious about that sort of belief, as if there's no afterlife, what's the point? I mean, I can see it for the atheists/ humanists, for whom the collective progress of the human race itself could be held to be the goal, but for someone who believes in a God, what's the point if there's nothing beyond the life we see and live now? If someone wishes to enlighten me... -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
