Episode 21 – The Hereafter
By Dustin
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INTRO
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THIS DAY IN HISTORY
- 1944 – Tojo makes himself “military czar”
- 1948 – NASCAR Founded
- 1972 – Nixon Visits China
- 1994 – Double Agent Aldrich Ames arrested
SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY
- Some “recent” human evolution has been found to be the cuase of some of the more steriotypical East Asian traits
- Hermaphroditic Sea slugs lose and regrow their penises
- Russia hit by meteorite
POLITICS/RELIGION/CULTURE
- The Pope resigns?!? First to do so in almost 700 old
- Irish bookie gives Dawkins 666:1 odds
- Trouble at the WBC:
- Iceland might block porn
- The Hitch Bar (via Friendly Atheist)
MUSIC – He’s Coming Back by Ensomniak (Used by permission)| Facebook | YouTube | bandcamp
FEATURE – Life after death
Abrahamic Religions
- Christianity – From most to least grotesque
- Catholic
- Dualist
- Heaven if you’re really good
- Purgatory if you’re mostly a good Christian
- Hell for the wicked/unbaptized
- Mainstream Protestant
- Dualist
- Predestination or free will
- Heaven or hell at death or the second coming
- Mormons
- Dualist
- Celestial Kingdom – The most heavenly, only for those who have lived upto the ordinances and covenants
- Highest degree – only for those sealed in celestial marriage, get to become gods
- Two lower degrees – likely become angels
- Terrestrial Kingdom – For good people who don’t qualify for the celestial kingdom
- Telestial Kingdom – Those who have not accepted Christ, 1000 years of spirit prision
- Seventh-day Adventist, Jehovah’s Witnesses
- Monist
- “Soul sleep” at death
- Righteous go to heaven at the second coming
- The wicked are raised, judged, and destroyed
- Catholic
- Islam
- Dualist – nafs
- Predestinarian
- Resurrection
- The good, including Muslims, Christians, Jews, and Sabians go to heaven
- The wicked get severe pain and shame
- Judaism
- Probably a bodily resurrection
- People will get what’s coming to them
Eastern Religions, neoplatonism, Gnosticism, paganism, Kabbalah (Jewish), Cathars (Christian), Alawi Shias (Muslim), Druze, Rosicrucians
- Dualistic
- Reincarnation
- Karma
- Release
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