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[This post represents my personal views, strongly stated, unmediated. Details, nuances, rationales, they can be explored in the comments. I appreciate that others differ from me: I explicitly do not expect others to come to my way of seeing things. Take this in whatever way you like.] Humans are selfish and egocentric. I call this [...]

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Real Live Preacher’s series of video clips on Hell, this is for Christians, who want to know/understand what the Bible teaches on Hell. The first clip is an introduction to the series, what to expect, some background on where the series came from, 6 minutes – The second is sharing “Just data, no judgement calls, [...]

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This post was promised as a follow-up to Sadducees and the Afterlife. That makes this the third post in a series of three, the first was Hope. Here’s the paragraph I pruned from the previous post in this series — you need to read that post for this to make sense: I love this piece, [...]

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In my previous post on Hope, I talked about what I consider to be arrogance, when people think they know what’s best for others whose context they have no experience of (in the section “Thoughts about Destroyers”), in an attempt to promote understanding of the fact that where humans find hope, and how much they [...]

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South Africa is a very Christian country. You see it everywhere. Like every “good South African”, I also grew up Christian. Whatever that means. The typical impression of Christianity that most outsiders seem to have, is that Christianity is obsessed with the afterlife and the supernatural, and rejects science. I suspect this is especially the [...]

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Today is the thirteenth anniversary of my father’s death. He died in a light aeroplane accident in the French Alps. A few years ago there was a question milling through some people’s minds: is he now in heaven?

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