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How Believing in an Afterlife Can Ruin Your Life

John Shand gives us a grave warning.

It should surely be the case that a belief in the afterlife should make one’s present life better. There may be difficulties in acquiring and sustaining the belief, but managing the difficulties should make one’s current alive-life, so to speak, a happier one. There must be consolation in knowing that this life isn’t all there is. Perhaps the greatest fear is death – it certainly is for some – so sustaining a belief that one does not really die, lifts one of the great anxieties from our lives. There is certainly a case that can be made from observation that people will believe almost anything in order to hold to belief in an afterlife.

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