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COMFORT, COMFORT YE MY PEOPLE.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2026Were I not a Christian, for instance, I\u2019m pretty sure I would envy Christians their beliefs about the afterlife, since the survival of consciousness and the resurrection of the body more or less matches up with my deepest longings concerning what awaits after death. (This correlation is one of the many reasons, of course, why I am a Christian to begin with.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, I, uh\u2026 don\u2019t agree with this. Not that I think Ross is wrong\u2013just that his emotional response here<\/a> is pretty much three hundred percent the opposite of mine. It was when I converted, and it still is. Quite possibly this is an indication of my own lingering mistrust and\/or self-protective loathing of God (I have never claimed I didn\u2019t have issues!), but there it is.<\/p>\n

More on cold comfort<\/a>; more on providence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

COMFORT, COMFORT YE MY PEOPLE. \u2026Were I not a Christian, for instance, I\u2019m pretty sure I would envy Christians their beliefs about the afterlife, since the survival of consciousness and the resurrection of the body more or less matches up with my deepest longings concerning what awaits after death. 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