tradeunionsupporter
15th May 2012, 02:39
What do you all think of Religions that don't believe in any Afterlife ?
Message to the Blackman
CHAPTER 132
THE HEREAFTER
8 No already physically dead person will be in the hereafter; that is slavery belief, taught to slaves to keep them under control. This is taught also so that they won't be thinking about the wealth of their slave-masters while under the slave-master. The slave is made to believe his will come after death, and his master knows that death settles all, and that you can't return to tell him whether he lied or told the truth.
http://www.seventhfam.com/temple/books/black_man/blk132.htm
The Messenger's Teachings on
Life After Death and the Existence of Spirit
Transcribed from the audio-taped lecture of Theology of Time, June 4, 1972
Christianity. What is Christ? What does Christ mean? What is the real truth of the meaning of Christ? It means one coming in the last days to crush the world of evil. Christ is a crusher. You don’t get that name in the Bible until his time, then you read of Christ coming. He’s the crusher of this religion: a lying religion, a religion that teaches you must die before you can see the hereafter or the heaven.
http://www.muhammadspeaks.com/lifeafterdeath-spirits.html
FARRAKHANISM: ...BELIEVE in the resurrection of the dead - not in physical resurrection, but in mental resurrection. No already physically dead person will be in the Hereafter; that is slavery belief, taught to slaves to keep them under control. When you are dead, you are DEAD.
http://www.angelfire.com/ny/dawahpage/nok.html
Heaven and Hell
Christian Science:
Heaven and hell are states of consciousness – not places.
"Heaven is not a locality, but a divine state of Mind in which all the manifestations of Mind are harmonious and immortal. . . ." (Science and Health, 291:13-16)
"HEAVEN. Harmony; the reign of Spirit; government by the divine Principle; spirituality; bliss; the atmosphere of Soul." (Science and Health, 587:25-27)
"To reach heaven, the harmony of being, we must understand the divine Principle of being." (Science and Health, 6:14-16)
"HELL. Mortal belief; error; lust; remorse; hatred; revenge; sin; sickness; death; suffering and self-destruction; self-imposed agony; effects of sin; that which "worketh abomination or maketh a lie." (Science and Health, 588:1-4)
"The sinner makes his own hell by doing evil, and the saint his own heaven by doing right." (Science and Health, 266:20-21)
"The evil beliefs which originate in mortals are hell." (Science and Health, 266:26-27)
http://www.christianway.org/CS%20and%20the%20Bible/heaven%20and%20hell.htm
If this idea scares you, think about all the millions of years that passed before you were born. Do you remember it? Was that scary? Interestingly enough, the fate that Christians find so inconceivable -- complete nonexistence -- is regarded by Buddhists as the best possible outcome for your life ("Nirvana").
http://www.atheist-community.org/faq/
There are some forms of liberal Judaism that don't emphasize an afterlife, some to the point of non-belief. The ancient priestly Sadducean branch of Judaism didn't, although there is some debate as to whether all Sadducees denied an afterlife/resurrection (if the Sadducees were more a class group than a doctrinal group).
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=479663
Atheists: What religion has no God and No afterlife?
Taoists, Buddhists, Satanists, some Pagans, Raelians, Scientologists, Thelemites to name just a few.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100923021235AAKKcoi
Message to the Blackman
CHAPTER 132
THE HEREAFTER
8 No already physically dead person will be in the hereafter; that is slavery belief, taught to slaves to keep them under control. This is taught also so that they won't be thinking about the wealth of their slave-masters while under the slave-master. The slave is made to believe his will come after death, and his master knows that death settles all, and that you can't return to tell him whether he lied or told the truth.
http://www.seventhfam.com/temple/books/black_man/blk132.htm
The Messenger's Teachings on
Life After Death and the Existence of Spirit
Transcribed from the audio-taped lecture of Theology of Time, June 4, 1972
Christianity. What is Christ? What does Christ mean? What is the real truth of the meaning of Christ? It means one coming in the last days to crush the world of evil. Christ is a crusher. You don’t get that name in the Bible until his time, then you read of Christ coming. He’s the crusher of this religion: a lying religion, a religion that teaches you must die before you can see the hereafter or the heaven.
http://www.muhammadspeaks.com/lifeafterdeath-spirits.html
FARRAKHANISM: ...BELIEVE in the resurrection of the dead - not in physical resurrection, but in mental resurrection. No already physically dead person will be in the Hereafter; that is slavery belief, taught to slaves to keep them under control. When you are dead, you are DEAD.
http://www.angelfire.com/ny/dawahpage/nok.html
Heaven and Hell
Christian Science:
Heaven and hell are states of consciousness – not places.
"Heaven is not a locality, but a divine state of Mind in which all the manifestations of Mind are harmonious and immortal. . . ." (Science and Health, 291:13-16)
"HEAVEN. Harmony; the reign of Spirit; government by the divine Principle; spirituality; bliss; the atmosphere of Soul." (Science and Health, 587:25-27)
"To reach heaven, the harmony of being, we must understand the divine Principle of being." (Science and Health, 6:14-16)
"HELL. Mortal belief; error; lust; remorse; hatred; revenge; sin; sickness; death; suffering and self-destruction; self-imposed agony; effects of sin; that which "worketh abomination or maketh a lie." (Science and Health, 588:1-4)
"The sinner makes his own hell by doing evil, and the saint his own heaven by doing right." (Science and Health, 266:20-21)
"The evil beliefs which originate in mortals are hell." (Science and Health, 266:26-27)
http://www.christianway.org/CS%20and%20the%20Bible/heaven%20and%20hell.htm
If this idea scares you, think about all the millions of years that passed before you were born. Do you remember it? Was that scary? Interestingly enough, the fate that Christians find so inconceivable -- complete nonexistence -- is regarded by Buddhists as the best possible outcome for your life ("Nirvana").
http://www.atheist-community.org/faq/
There are some forms of liberal Judaism that don't emphasize an afterlife, some to the point of non-belief. The ancient priestly Sadducean branch of Judaism didn't, although there is some debate as to whether all Sadducees denied an afterlife/resurrection (if the Sadducees were more a class group than a doctrinal group).
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=479663
Atheists: What religion has no God and No afterlife?
Taoists, Buddhists, Satanists, some Pagans, Raelians, Scientologists, Thelemites to name just a few.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100923021235AAKKcoi