God Arises
Argument for the Life Hereafter
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THE CONCEPT OF THE AFTERLIFE AS AN
IMPERATIVE
In the preceding pages the concept of the life
hereafter was discussed in order to ascertain
whether the advent of the life hereafter, as asserted
by religion was or was not a distinct probability in
the context of the present set-up of the universe: it
was satisfactorily established that it was bound to
occur. Now let us see whether or not this concept is
a necessity in our present world.
First of all, let us deal with the psychological aspect.
Keningham, in his book entitled,
Plato’s Apology
, has
described the dogma of life after death as “cheerful
agnosticism”.
All materialistic thinkers of the present age
subscribe to the same view, in that they hold that
man tends to seek out a world for himself where,
free from all the restrictions and hardships of the
present world, he may experience the freedom and
happiness of his dreams. It is this very tendency in
man, they say, which has given birth to the concept
of a second life. They insist that this dogma is
simply the result of wishful thinking, the desire to
