religions are living things which are constantly growing and evolving. People feel as if there is some axiomatic, rigid, unyielding truth to their particular sect but the fact of the matter is there is a positive and negative to all of these beliefs. To be sure, the heaven/hell concept is ludicrous and obviously why more than 95% of all somewhat intelligent people don't believe in that nonsense. What happened according to scholars like D.T. Suzuki is that the concepts extolled by religious leaders became overshadowed by the awe felt by that religious leader's following. This continued for centuries until eventually the inane notion that the leader was god incarnate came to be. It's happened time and time again with thousands of religions throughout human history. If a Christian rapist repents he goes to heaven but a good atheist doesn't he goes to hell? Lol, obvious bullshit. Anyways, I bet it's either eternal sleep or we leave our bodies and experience a different dimension.
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