On 6-7-2009 19:16, Darren New wrote:
> Stephen wrote:
>> Why to religions insist that you have to believe in a god before you 
>> can go to
>> the good place when you die? Why is it not enough to be a good person?
> 
> Only the monotheistic religions.
> 
> Buddhism, for example, says (in some sense) you have to stop believing 
> in God in order to go to the good place. :-)
> 
> The Mayan religions held that you merely needed to die by blood in order 
> to help save the world.  As I ever so vaguely understand it, all the 
> actual gods were already dead. The sacrifices were to help keep the 
> world going after all the gods sacrificed themselves to make it. 
> (Disclaimer: this was the audio track on a tourist attraction, so take 
> it with some large-granule sea salt.)
> 
> It makes sense that a monotheistic religion would need much more to 
> convince you that their god is the right god.
> 
And there are also the wee free men who believe they are already dead 
because they live in such a good place.

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