It's Not All Fire and Brimstone
An interesting short essay concerning different views of the afterlife by one of my favorite contributors to the On Faith section of the Washington Post. If you read the below linked article at all, please read all the way through the end. Stopping only part of the way through misses the better part.
Edit: Having read Sasha's comment and realized that I nowhere state that the author writes exclusively from the perspective of his own faith tradition (in this case, liberal mainline Protestant Christianity), please note that he does so. The On Faith section of the Washington Post provides a forum for authors of different religious and philosophical persuasions to respond to questions from the perspective of their own traditions. The below short essay is not intended to nor does it constitute anything like an exhaustive survey of the afterlife as understood by the major religious traditions of the world. ~S~
“The Man upstairs, if any, will be kind to me. Never mention God to me again.” by Willis E. Elliot (www.washingtonpost.com)
If anyone would like to read all of the panelists' responses, please click here. The majority of the contributors are Christians of some persuasion, but several belong to other faith traditions or are secular in their outlook.
Edit: Having read Sasha's comment and realized that I nowhere state that the author writes exclusively from the perspective of his own faith tradition (in this case, liberal mainline Protestant Christianity), please note that he does so. The On Faith section of the Washington Post provides a forum for authors of different religious and philosophical persuasions to respond to questions from the perspective of their own traditions. The below short essay is not intended to nor does it constitute anything like an exhaustive survey of the afterlife as understood by the major religious traditions of the world. ~S~
“The Man upstairs, if any, will be kind to me. Never mention God to me again.” by Willis E. Elliot (www.washingtonpost.com)
If anyone would like to read all of the panelists' responses, please click here. The majority of the contributors are Christians of some persuasion, but several belong to other faith traditions or are secular in their outlook.