EVERYONE has religious/metaphysical ideas that they live by and pass on to their children. You SHOULDN'T lie, or hit your sister, etc. Any moral instruction or information about the value, purpose and meaning of life - is ultimately religious - even if it is that there is no soul or heaven. "Religions" are just a group of people with the same metaphysical ideas.
Belief in an afterlife seems actually quite natural and universal - it actually takes some "brainwashing" to erase that belief.
Paul
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Received on Fri Sep 21 09:42:07 2007
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