[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Re(2): Re: Religions in freeciv?

["Daniel Speyer" <Daniel_Speyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

dnh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>Salvation is but one thing, and by the way I think
>judaism does believe in heaven.. so I would imagine the believe >in
salvation.
 
Heaven is filled with stars and nebulae; people don't go there (according
to Jewish teaching).  The afterlife is barely ever mentioned and when it
is it's usually negative statements like
"Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no
work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going."
(Ecclesiastes 9:10)  I am Jewish and have studied extensively, so I really
do know what I'm talking about here.

Putting together from various postings, I think your definition is
something like 'worship of a higher being who grants forgiveness nessesary
for personal salvation'.  This is a definition of *Christianity*.  I don't
think there's *any* other religion that meets it.  Certainly none that
I've studied (Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Discordianism) do.

--Daniel Speyer
"May the /src be with you, always"