maybe you're taking the afterlife symbolism too literally. don't fall into the same trap as a fundamentalist would. life is indeed wondrous & brimming with possibility for those that choose to seek it, but there are too many people living unexamined lives in need of the salvation of self-knowledge= that will never find happiness & will only find diversion after diversion leading to ennui. Christianity isn't the only way to find self-knowledge, that's for sure. Jesus said: "No man may come to the Father, but by me" but I don't think it means (if it was translated accurately at all) that Christianity is the only true religion. Rather, it means one must have the resilient spirit & passion for the truth like he had. Most Christians' misunderstandings of their own religion make them a target ripe for apt criticism as well, but you simply cannot dismiss it
all & be rational at the same time.
Is rationality of the upmost importance?
No, sometimes it's good to be highly irrational.
I simply stated that I felt that as a western white man & a Kierkegaard devotee that my unconscious was more stimulated into conscious activity by the Bible as a book of wisdom moreso than with any other book of wisdom, so the merits of the Bible were presented. It's not an easy task, since so much of it is a history of a glorified tribal religion in the old testament (not all of the OT is to be dismissed either though) & bloody as can be. the church (all denominations) have their own dogmatic problems & hang-ups.
the new testament is not without it's literary flaws, but it's mighty profound as well, so that's what I mainly chose to concentrate on it.
anyway...
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