| 1. | " He thought that
conventional religions were indispensable in giving people happiness in
this life - whatever they might provide in an afterlife:
When a people's religion is destroyed, doubt invades the highest
faculties of the mind and half paralyzes all the rest."
| Source: | Lakoff, Sanford. "Tocqueville, Burke, and the origins of liberal conservatism" Review of Politics v60.n3 June 22 1998: 435-465
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| 2. | " To pursue personal happiness here on earth, and
to sanctify the human body, is a different sort of quest than the search
for redemption in an afterlife."
| Source: | Lesser, Elizabeth. "Twenty-First-Century Spirituality" Tikkun 15.1 Jan. 1 2000: 22
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| 3. | " One
forgets that suffering, for Catholics of Huysmans's generation, was
a means, not an end; given belief in the afterlife, the converted
Durtal's inability to find happiness in his lifetime was not the
failure it represented for Des Esseintes."
| Source: | Emery, Elizabeth. "Smeets, Marc. Huysmans l'inchange: Histoire d'une conversion" Nineteenth-Century French Studies 33.1-2 Sept. 22 2004: 209-212
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| 4. | "
Members of the National Academy of Sciences are almost all
disbelievers, while only 40 percent of those listed American Men and
Women of Science believe in God and an afterlife, studies have found."
| Source: | Witham, Larry. "Catholic scientists look to bridge theory, theology: Hope to bring morality into largely atheistic disciplines" Washington Times May 24 1999: 7
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| 5. | " These skillful renderings of the subjects' features were
intended to preserve the actual appearances of the deceased for an
afterlife with their gods."
| Source: | RUBEY, DANIEL. "Facing Eternity" Art in America 88.9 Sept. 1 2000: 134
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| 6. | " Even when death approaches his foster children
Korczak does not make any attempt to relieve their pain by introducing
them to the prospect of a happy afterlife with the Jewish god."
| Source: | MAZIERSKA, EWA. "Non-Jewish Jews, Good Poles and Historical Truth in the Films of Andrzej Wajda" Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 20.2 June 1 2000: 213
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| 7. | " As he admitted in an interview," I do not believe in any
kind of god or any kind of afterlife...."
| Source: | Flannagan, Roy. "John Hawkes" Review of Contemporary Fiction 20.2 June 22 2000: 47
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| 8. | "... argument for it being probable that the Christian
revelation about an afterlife is true if God exists, I refer the reader
to Alvin Plantinga's powerful objections to it in his forthcoming
Warranted Christian Belief. [6] He shows that the argument, in..."
| Source: | GALE, RICHARD M. "Swinburne on providence" Religious Studies 36.2 June 1 2000: 209
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| 9. | "
A much-discussed issue here is whether Therese actually found
herself doubting the existence of God, or whether she was merely tempted
to doubt the existence of a heavenly afterlife."
| Source: | FROHLICH, MARY. "DESOLATION AND DOCTRINE IN THERESE OF LISIEUX" Theological Studies 61.2 June 1 2000: 261
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| 10. | " In general he was a Deist,
believing in God as the Creator who should be worshipped and also
believing in an afterlife where people will be rewarded or punished
based on their deeds in this life."
| Source: | Morgan, David T. "Benjamin Franklin and His Gods" Historian 62.2 Jan. 1 2000: 426
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| 11. | "... idea of
compensation in the afterlife as known goods 'that can be actual
only if God exists'. [9]
For the purpose of my argument I am not assuming that God exists."
| Source: | DURSTON, KIRK. "The consequential complexity of history and gratuitous evil" Religious Studies 36.1 Mar. 1 2000: 65
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| 12. | " In contrast, beliefs in God and belief s in an afterlife are
remarkably stable (Greeley 1989, Harley & Firebaugh 1993)."
| Source: | Sherkat, Darren E.,Ellison, Christopher G. "RECENT DEVELOPMENTS AND CURRENT CONTROVERSIES IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION" Annual Review of Sociology Jan. 1 1999: 363
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| 13. | "
Yet now, although surveys indicate a marked decline in the numbers
who believe in religion and a smaller but still significant decline in
those who believe in "God", there is an increase of interest
in an afterlife."
| Source: | Maitland, Sara. "Immortal longings grow again" New Statesman (1996) 128.4448 Aug. 9 1999: 9
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| 14. | " What I am
suggesting is that liberal Jews need new ways to learn and think about
Judaism's position on God, revelation, election, free will, sin,
the afterlife, and many other topics."
| Source: | RASHKOVER, RANDI. "A Call for Jewish Theology" Cross Currents 49.4 Dec. 22 1999: 443
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| 15. | " For that reason God's
lordship, as Jesus understands it, expresses the relation between God
and humanity, in the sense that `we are each other's
happiness'"..."
| Source: | MCMANUS, KATHLEEN. "SUFFERING IN THE THEOLOGY OF EDWARD SCHILLEBEECKX" Theological Studies 60.3 Sept. 1 1999: 476
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| 16. | " The large consensus on the existence of God, a
just afterlife, and the nature of morality, among other things,
indicates that religious beliefs permeate the political culture."
| Source: | RICCARDS, MICHAEL P. "Moral Controversies in American Politics: Cases in Social Regulatory Policy" Perspectives on Political Science 28.2 Mar. 22 1999: 101
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| 17. | " In Newsweek, Christianity, though flawed, is seen
transforming Western civilization's understandings of God, of
death's finality and the afterlife, of ethics and the meaning of
suffering."
| Source: | . "COMMONWEAL" Commonweal Apr. 23 1999: 5-6
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| 18. | " Secondly+ on
the basis of the postulation of infinite afterlife possibilities of
reform for all those not yet saved; i.e. an 'intermediate
state' in which God continues to offer his grace, and tries to urge
people into salvation in a variety of ways."
| Source: | Van Holten, Wilko. "Hell and the goodness of God" Religious Studies 35.1 Mar. 1 1999: 37-38
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| 19. | "
All this may be sheer guesswork, since Albert also tells us that
God remains a remote but presumably benevolent mystery, still beyond the
comprehension of even privileged afterlifers."
| Source: | Arnold, Gary. "`Dreams' turns into real disappointment" Washington Times Oct. 2 1998: 16
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| 20. | " He proposes to remove that cause by enlightening the people,
by teaching what he claims to be the truth about God and the afterlife:
"The will of God is not known save through the state"; the
head..."
| Source: | AHRENSDORF, PETER J. "The Fear of Death and the Longing for Immortality: Hobbes and Thucydides on Human Nature and the Problem of Anarchy" American Political Science Review 94.3 Sept. 1 2000: 579
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| 21. | "... an afterlife where
individuals continue to live and have power, personalizing of a god
figure who is empathetic and in some way participatory in the lives of
those who are oppressed, and the belief that a martyr's death is
not meaningless."
| Source: | Baldwin, Gayle R. "Rainbow children over me: parabolic narratives for Sakia Gunn" Cross Currents 54.2 June 22 2004: 17-31
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| 22. | " In performing this ritual activity, the
person is encouraged to write each day any thoughts or feelings relating
to a higher power, an afterlife, or any other reflections experienced in
relation to the meaning of his or her life and death."
| Source: | Johnson, Laurie Shepherd. "Facilitating spiritual meaning-making for the individual with a diagnosis of a terminal illness." Counseling and Values 47.3 Apr. 1 2003: 230-241
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| 23. | " Binski then moves
into closer examination of late medieval anxieties about good and bad
deaths in relation to religious beliefs about the afterlife, what are
often..."
| Source: | Silver, Larry. "Master of Death" Art Bulletin 80.2 June 1 1998: 378-381
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| 24. | "
Trapped inside women's bodies, men could no longer provide their
spirits to fill the clan reservoir of life force; the after-life world
of the forest (kore) would cease as would the reproduction of new
generations of clan members."
| Source: | Konrad, Monica. "Ova donation and symbols of substance: some variations on the theme of sex, gender and the partible body" Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 4.4 Dec. 1 1998: 643-645
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| 25. | "... / Second to me or like" (405-7), and yet is
"sufficiently possessed / Of happiness" (404-5), so Adam
should be. Adam rightly rejects this false analogy between God and
himself, and God concludes this argument by revealing..."
| Source: | Graves, Neil D. "Infelix culpa: Milton's Son of God and the incarnation as a fall in Paradise Lost" Philological Quarterly 81.2 Mar. 22 2002: 159-184
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