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Callimachus
(Done with Mirrors)
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(Statistical blah blah blah)
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Andrew Sullivan
(Daily Dish)
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(Political Animal)
Hilzoy
(Obsidian Wings)
Why is it that so many people are sure there must be life after death, yet barely anyone gives a thought to life before birth? Why does the idea of non-existence after death so offend our sensibilities that faith strives to imagine an alternative, while the idea of non-existence before birth troubles us not at all? Why do religions not soothe us with stories of the spiritual plane which we all inhabited in the beforelife?
A term of life which begins and ends is strange to contemplate. An infinite life with no boundary at either end is stranger still. But surely a life that stops at one end and continues forever at the other is the strangest of all.
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