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Religions and the Afterlife

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Mar 3, 2009
by: snakashima

I think it is too hard to try and find all the different types of afterlives in religion. There are so many of them that are so similar that I think there is no point in even trying to think about one. There are so many religions and all of these religions probably have afterlives and I believe that there are some religions that are probably not even heard of by people. There are probably religions that aren't popular that can possibly be more believable than main religions. I'm not sure because the number of the religions make things so complicated. I think in a room with twenty people there will be like five who will not believe in any religion and most of the population believing in one of those religions that is practiced alot. I think there may be an afterlife but no one is certain because it is impossible.

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The after life is a very

Submitted by dguaman on Wed, 2009-12-09 13:07.

The after life is a very interesting topic especially when it involves religion. Most religions influence people to think differntly about what will occur when they are going to die, I found this very interesting paragraph from wikipedia:

"There are two fundamentally different types of views on the afterlife: empirical views based on observation and religious views based on faith.

  • The first type are loosely based on observations and conjecture made by humans or instruments (for example a radio or a voice recorder, which are used in electronic voice phenomena, or EVP). These observations come from reincarnation research, near death experiences, out-of-body experiences, astral projection, EVP, mediumship, various forms of photography et cetera. Academic inquiry into such phenomena can be broken down roughly into two categories: psychical research generally focuses on case studies, interviews, and field reports, while parapsychology relates to strictly laboratory research.
  • The second type are based on a form of faith, usually faith in the stories that are told by ancestors or faith in religious books like the Bible, the Qur'an, the Talmud, the Vedas, the Tripitaka et cetera. This article is mainly about this second type."

Hope to hear more from you.