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Pacattack57@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Here’s the thing I never understood. Your parents die. You’re at the funeral and everybody says “I bet they’re looking down from heaven at you, right now.”

  So you’re telling me your parents die, they get up to heaven, somehow get notice about when their own funeral is despite not even being on the same planet, have the ability to watch from across the galaxy at any given time…and they choose to watch a bunch of depressed people in black suits cry over a box that contains their own corpse? And what about your grandparents? Were they watching over your parents before they died? What are they doing now? Is heaven so boring that it’s inhabitants just spend eternity watching various generations of families? And what happens if you never have kids? What do they do when you die? Do they watch someone else? Do they watch while you’re pooping? Do your dead ancestors watch you have sex, and know your kinks?

  Yeah, religion starts falling apart real quick when you begin questioning things.

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  • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Apart from the Bible not saying much about the dead watching except from a vague

    Hebrews 12:1 ESV

    Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us

    The idea of people looking down - while could be argued for in this verse - is moreso a human invention than scriptural in the case of Christianity. But the Roman Catholic Catechisms may have something to say about it

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