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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (16437)	2/29/2004 3:04:34 AM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

But why is there no concern for the "souls" of dolphins and ants and elephants? Why do people preach and write and orate endlessly as to their special knowledge of the afterlife? as I pointed out before , it was often that one finds the Dolphin pictured on the wall of the early christian catacombs , from myths & beliefs the Greeks and Romans had of them being the carriers of souls to the "other shore ". Funny thing happened on the way to heaven too... the fact is pure and remains that men and their religions do get rather intoxicated on the ideas surrounding Hell and purgatory and why the otherfellow is going to wind up there ...but ask any christian or Jew what heaven is like , and they become stumped in a hurry . The truth is they know very little about what heaven is all about , only the vaguest of ideas . Something to do with Judgement & eternal life , which ofcourse is an Egyptian idea purely. But as an experiment , just as Greg what heaven is ....he will be hard pressed to come up with more than two or three sentences at most ...but can talk on for hours and hours about hell and who is going there and why . Its just one of those interesting things .... and why Dante's inferno was such a great hit ! Thank heaven they let him exercise a little imagination and liked him so well they didn't burn him or his books (or worse) and allowed him to be explicit in the fscinating expose of ourselves ... Dante got lucky .... ;-)