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dande48 wrote:
I think most members who are banking on the next life to “make everything right” would still be good people even if they lost faith in their eternal rewards.
I totally agree with you. Deep down there is more to us than just what church taught us. We have some inherent and divine worth (and a mix of other stuff). I think church teachings help reflect what is already in us…not define what we are. Like you said…for most people…take away the church and the person is still there, mostly the same.
It depends on what life they would have had otherwise, including what they would have been taught. ‘Your rewards in heaven’ Sometimes we think that if something is not righted in this life that it will be corrected or justified in the next life, so we don’t do anything about it. The thought of a perfected future causes inaction today.
And on the otherhand the basis of an afterlife affects society as a whole for the better.
C&H is awesome. I’m still partial to Bloom County being the greatest comic strip ever.
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