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Monotheistic religions and Hellenistic mysteries offered a more fulfilling concept of Afterlife. They were bound to overtake the grim Hades.
by Red_Tarsius 11y ago
Monotheistic religions and Hellenistic mysteries offered a more fulfilling concept of Afterlife. They were bound to overtake the grim Hades.
- Retric 11y agoThe afterlife is far from a fixed concept in Christianity. For a recent example: http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/04/20/us-pope-limbo-idUSL2028721620070420 http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/04/20/us-pope-limbo-idUS...
- partomniscient 11y agoDoes anyone know if they emptied limbo completely before they buried it - or do we have to worry about being attacked by undead philosophers now as well?
- s_q_b 11y agoEven Hell and Heaven appear to be creations of later thinkers, with little basis even in the canonical Gospels. They remind me of the Greek academic conception of the Gods: useful for controlling the masses, but not believed, and understood as a social control device, by many contemporary academics.