I'm currently reading "What Dreams May Come" by Richard Matheson. I'm really enjoying this book. I highly recommend it to everyone. It's my idea of a true romance novel. It concerns itself with the afterlife and I just feel like chiming in on the subject.
I believe in good and bad and hence I am a moralist. Good for goodness sake. I really have a problem with the whole notion of an afterlife. I believe in the here and the now and to make the best of it as if that's all that there is. While I doubt there is an afterlife it's certainly possible. If it does exist, most would probably not recognize it as such.
Back on to my point, I strongly object to religion and it's overwhelming concern with an afterlife and it's focus on it being a reward. If we assume there is an afterlife, I conclude we aren't suppose to know. All that stuff about being accountable for your sins in the afterlife is shit. If you do good things only because you seek to be rewarded with an afterlife in heaven then that doesn't make you good. If there is a god and a heaven, then you can't know they exist because if you did you wouldn't behave the same. In many ways it would take away your choose. You would be doing good deeds only for the most selfish of reasons. If there is a god then he meant for us not to know, at least for sure, because that's free will, and free will is the soul. I'd rather not believe and risk damnation by choosing to be the person that I am, than to believe and have no choice.
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