Christ's resurrection is that act of perfect saving love that drives away the fear of death in us
Ivano Liguori
Of the Order of the Capuchin Friars Minor
Presbyter and Theologian
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Of the Order of the Capuchin Friars Minor
Presbyter and Theologian
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Dear father
We understand very well the value of this from the point of view of Catholic doctrine which expresses its point of view on the fear of death and the correlative faith in the resurrection, claiming that this fear constitutes the common substratum to mankind because death is the painful wages of Adam's sin (of which we are all children) inaugurating that conception that “paradoxical” linear time which then concretizes the history of salvation, inconceivable in other areas.
This however does not coincide with the feeling of many peoples variously distributed in the terrestrial globe that, believing circular and nonlinear time, imagined (or they were taught by way of revelation) and they lived (and live) in a different condition temporality. Linked to gradually larger cosmic cycles, they saw in the repetitive celestial machine, always returning to the same point, the rhythm of their own individual existences and at this berth they coherently anchored their ephemeral individuality in the perfect and imperturbable conviction that even in their person was engraved the same motion that they saw appearing in the slow turning of the skies.
Consequently, they were convinced that there is a life with the body and a life without the body, that is, the body appeared to them as a dismissive tunic.
Even the phrase "woman you will give birth with pain" - the entrance to life - is a culturally conditioned belief as in many human groups childbirth, albeit obviously demanding, it is rarely painful and occurs completely naturally, even conversing with bystanders, in similitude to this attitude, his separation from the body is accepted by the dying person.
These are the thoughts that a religious without religion like me gets these days.