‘God is a concept by which we measure our pain,’ said John Lennon. I’m looking for more specific detail here, though, as this World Peace Adventure we’re all on is, one way or another, going to succeed or fail based on God. So let’s go with this: God is the concept of a supreme supernatural being believed in and worshipped by religious people on Earth as the principle object of their faith. Continue reading Chapter 31: God
Monthly Archives: March 2015
Chapter 30: Eternal Life
Immortality. Being able to live forever. The afterlife. Reincarnation. Pffft to all of it, you may say – the one biological certainty in life is that we won’t live forever, right? Yet humankind has fought against this certainty since our earliest history and across all ages and cultures, seeking ever-more inventive ways to convince ourselves that our inevitable end-outcome may not actually be the end – through folklore, religion, magic and science. Continue reading Chapter 30: Eternal Life