Substack-ships On Fire, Off The Shoulder Of Orion

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Medieval and Modern: the Afterlife

Medieval and Modern: the Afterlife

To After-Be, or Not to After-Be

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Aug 16, 2025
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This is interesting: from a festschrift for Aron Gurevich:

Yelena Mazour-Matusevič: Why do you think modern Christians, unlike their predecessors, all seem to believe that they safely go to paradise after death? You hear over and over again in the United States this confidence “Grandpa went to God, or aunty is with the Lord now.” How do you explain this …

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