Interesting sign

I was driving along today and I passed a Christian Church. this church usually has clever signs about their ideas of salvation. Today, the sign read" Repent Now!. Stop Drop and Roll doesn't work in Hell!"

Think about that. It is purely an advertising scheme to get people on board. Have you ever been to hell? DO you know anyone who has been there? Of course not. The only way to be sure is to die.

As Shakespeare said:

"To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; "

It is fear of that undiscovered country that keeps us alive. For if we knew a wonderful heaven awaited us, we would happily die immediately.

Thus, many cling to religion as a way of protection against that unknown. It has been that way snce the first humans recognized that something happens to us after death and we don't know what that is.

So, for tens of thousands of years, we, as a people, have spent time creating ways to distract us from that unknown.

Some learned a long time ago that it was good business to sell the idea of just what the afterlife holds-and how to get the best of it. That church was following a long, long tradition of salesmanship.

Note that the new age movement is not at all immune to this. They just have a different pitch. But it is basically the same idea. "Go with us and you will be happy forever".

But as enlightened beings, we have to ask "is it true"? Do we know? If not, what do we do about it?

The answer will be in my next post