The title of this post refers to the class called “Heresy,” which I am teaching this semester.
We had a wonderful and interesting conversation in a recent class, on the subject of ideas about an afterlife, based on one of the readings for that class period, which was the Apocalypse of Peter. We discussed notions of retribution and the reasons why ideas of an afterlife had developed in the first place. We discussed the possibility for an afterlife to add meaning to this life we experience, but also to detract from or undermine that meaning, since it diminishes the significance of this life if its only point is to make it into another.
And of course, we discussed the issue which appeared on a PostSecret card that Hemant Mehta recently shared, as well as being discussed in a recent post by Valerie Tarico. Is there any way that a static kind of endless existence could avoid becoming tedious and boring?
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