

death, the most terrifying of evils, is nothing to us, since for the time when we are, death is not present and for the time when death is present, we are not. For example, Buddhism teaches Samsara, the belief that people, after dying, are reborn as a newborn and live successive lifetimes. This statement is not factually true, because some religious groups do not teach the existence of a Hell.

Reading the essays in this section may cause them great distress, If you fall into this group, we recommend that you consider not reading further.Ī sampling of quotations, mostly by individual Christians: We recognize that many people of faith derive strong feelings of security from the beliefs about the afterlife taught by their particular denomination. This section describes the diversity of contradictory beliefs about life after death that are found among believers of various religions and religious skeptics. about the afterlife: M enu Heaven, Hell, Limbo, What Christian groups say about the afterlife: Heaven, Hell, Purgatory, Reincarnation.
