Maybe others can relate to this quick little tale. I was walking home from work when I passd two guys passing out fliers for a christian rock group. I turned it down because christian music has never appealed to me, even less so after becoming a Wiccan. I told him as much when he asked me if I didn't like christian music, and usually guys like this either just step aside or turn up their nose and step aside.
Maybe he was trying to convert me, but we ended up debating and talking about our religions and some of the ways they match up and differ. He seemed surprised at the rules we follow and how in the end actually wasn't terribly different from Christianity the same ways Islam and Judaism are. But during this talk he asked me about what comes after. In particular in how the guilty are punished or what we look forward to when we die. Or even what the meaning of life is, well the meaning to being a good person.
I told him that the Gods decide the fate of those who would harm others. We arn't here to judge one another but to help each other grow. In fact that with the concept of reincarnation that each life we live is meant for us to learn and grow stronger in spirit. To answer his question of Hitler's point of life I suggested that perhaps his next life was harder. Perhaps he came back as a Jewish girl. Just because there is no Hell does not mean that the gods let those who hurt others get off free.
But as to the point of it all? He didn't like the question directed back as to what purpose Heaven served. Yes its a utopia, but what else? My grandmother always said the day you stop learning is the day you die, so if you stop growing from experience and such what point is a utopia? I'm not sure if I handled this guy right, as i'm still rather new to all this as well. So what do you all out there think of this conversation?
