Just as mathematicians postulate orders of infinity, there orders of improbability in religion. That the bible is literally true, strikes me as impossible. There is absolutely no evidence to support it, and a ton of evidence to refute it. The bible contradicts itself, so there is no possible way it could all be true, though parts of it could be. That after you die St. Peter does a review of your life and sends you to heaven or hell, strikes me as utterly silly, but not nearly as silly as the bible as a whole. There is almost no evidence to support after death judgement but then there is no evidence to refute it. The Buddhists describe an after-death experience and reincarnation that sounds downright plausible. It is impersonal, the way the rest of nature works. It handles all species, not just man. It has some evidence to support it, namely children who mysteriously have an intimate knowledge of the lives of dead strangers. These phenomena need to be properly studied scientifically. I hope the Buddhists are wrong since I have no desire to be a bullied child again, but I believe there is a slim possibility they could be right.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)