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Was Reincarnation Deleted From The Bible?
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IDK but it would be smart to do that. People would think that you could anything horrible and then you get to come back.
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I heard that some religious scholars believe that the story of Jesus Christ was actually invented as a system of mind control to enslave the poor, that the religion was used as a propaganda excercise by the Roman Empire. For example the biblical Messiah says citizens will reach heaven if they behave peacefully and pay their taxes; this made him the pefect device for the Roman Empire to ensure citizens' obedience.Originally Posted by KMack
Some philosophers also reason that the concept of heaven was invented centuries after the religion was born. The religion originally preached reincarnation but added the idea of an afterlife to keep people in the faith.
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Honestly, I would say reincarnation would be worse than death itself. At least with death; it just ends in one life cycle, whereas reincarnation is like an existential limbo where you are cursed to an existence of continuous life cycles.
Nevertheless, I'm never heard that before about reincarnation being in Western theology in general.
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.”
- H.P. Lovecraft
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No. Reincarnation isn't even a thing in the Old Testament.
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