God Arises
Argument for the Life Hereafter
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no man can create another man in this artificial
way, that no man can breathe the spark of life into a
lifeless lump of flesh, should be enough to convince
them that there is a great deal more to life than
permutations and combinations of cellular forms.
Apart from concerning ourselves with the
probability of survival after death, we must also
look at this problem from the angle of what purpose
is served by having faith in such a concept. Religion
makes it plain that life is not as Nietsche
maintained, just a blind and meaningless cycle of
life, death, and resurrection, like an hour-glass
being emptied of its sand, time and time again, for
no particular reason: it is, on the contrary, a time of
trial for the whole of mankind, and the afterlife is
the time of reward or punishment. The purpose of
belief in such religious tenets, therefore, is to
strengthen the moral fibre of society by inculcating
the fear of God in the individuals – of which it is
composed.
The advent of the life hereafter assumes a high
degree of credibility when we find, astonishingly,
that the daily deeds of each and every human
