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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can one be Catholic or Jewish or whatever and still believe in no afterlife?[/quote]

I'm not Jewish but I've been to a number of Jewish funerals and noticed that there was no discussion of an afterlife.[/quote]

That's right. Christians keep harping about an afterlife. We Jews don't talk about it. Maybe there is one, maybe not. Christians are always saying that we must act morally because that's how to get to Heaven. If you act immorally, you go to Hell. To a Jew, that makes no sense. Jews believe that one must act morally because it's the right thing to do. If you're acting morally simply because you're afraid that if you don't, you will burn in Hell for eternity, that doesn't make you a moral person. It makes you a person acting out of self interest. [/quote]

This is not Christianity.  In Christianity, God's love for us is so overwhelming and perfect, there is nothing we can do to earn it.  You don't go to heaven or hell because of what you DO.  It is impossible to do enough to enter the Kingdom of God - God is perfect and we are not.  Christ poured out his love for us to the point of death.  We are so grateful for that, we naturally try to imitate our Lord (and brother) Christ.  Of course we fall short, but we attempt do good in imitation of God.[/quote]

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