What about death?
Christopher Hitchens’ tussle with metastasized esophageal cancer has brought death back as a hot topic among those of us who are drawn to, or repelled by, organized religion.
Death is, after all, the Big Yikes, the ultimate Uncontrollable Event. We are so beyond clueless about what goes on after it happens, and we do hate being clueless. Not to mention that cluelessness scares us – particularly when it involves something as life-changing as our own death
Reading Christopher Hitchens’ thoughts about dying, it occurred to me that accepting we don’t have a clue about what happens to us after death exemplifies life’s most formidable spiritual challenge: Facing reality as it actually is. And Mr. Hitchens appears, at least in public, to be doing a graceful job of doing this. . . . (Martha’s thoughts continued)
Bible is extremely clear about, our fear of it causes the ‘fight or flight’, most ending with the ‘flight’, putting it at great distance, either in time or perception, nevertheless, we will depart this planet. A great promise of NT is being able to be ’set free from the fear of dying, which fear holds us like prisoners..’