Religious Affiliation

[pearl]

this is such a fascinating thread! i love hearing people's points of view.
i can relate to the "if you don't believe enough leave" coyote. the thing i noticed about the exposure i had to the born again type rreligion was that if things weren't working for you it was your fault. you weren't good enough. i thought that was very damaging.

i think there is a life after death, but it's not a one shot deal. i think things are a continuum. a process and progress. who knows what it is next. i don't believe in hell. there are people who are so genetically deficient they don't have judgement of right and wrong or ability to control it.

coyote, i would think that the belief that there is paradise waiting might spur a person on to die, but i also think that belief also would have a part that if you hurried your death you might effect your paradise. because there is a "plan" for your life and it's up to God to decide when you die.
i don't personally believe that at all, but i think other people may see it that way.