Most organized religious views of God, reality, and the afterlife are seriously flawed. Decades ago I was a right wing conservative Christian and I can tell you that the belief system is akin to insanity. Your life revolves around understanding a set of rules that basically say that if you follow the rules precisely then you get to go to heaven but if you violate any of them you go straight to Hell. This makes facing death a very scary thing. I had the fortunate experience of dying from a heart attack and the related experiences removed any fear of death.
However, long before this I had had a set of other experiences that had already lead me completely away from religion. Over several decades I was able to remove all traces of religious belief and develop a fairly solid understanding of the afterlife. But it took an actual death experience before I was able to loose all fear of death. Organized religion serves a very important role in our reality but the teachings as relate to God and the afterlife are pretty much wrong. It is true and rather ironic that the more religious you are the more trouble you're going to have with death and death recovery in the afterlife.
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Most organized religious views of God, reality, and the afterlife are seriously flawed. Decades ago I was a right wing conservative Christian and I can tell you that the belief system is akin to insanity. Your life revolves around understanding a set of rules that basically say that if you follow the rules precisely then you get to go to heaven but if you violate any of them you go straight to Hell. This makes facing death a very scary thing. I had the fortunate experience of dying from a heart attack and the related experiences removed any fear of death. However, long before this I had had a set of other experiences that had already lead me completely away from religion. Over several decades I was able to remove all traces of religious belief and develop a fairly solid understanding of the afterlife. But it took an actual death experience before I was able to loose all fear of death. Organized religion serves a very important role in our reality but the teachings as relate to God and the afterlife are pretty much wrong. It is true and rather ironic that the more religious you are the more trouble you're going to have with death and death recovery in the afterlife.