afterlife
Noun
Meaning
life after death
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Afterlife The Egyptians had elaborate beliefs about death and the afterlife.
Also Boccaccio often tells tales about the lives of people whose souls Dante had met in his epic journey through the afterlife.
Although punishments are made part of certain Christian conceptions of the afterlife, the prevalent concept of "eternal damnation" is a tenet of the Christian afterlife.
All deities must have worshipers to survive, and all mortals must worship a patron deity to secure a good afterlife.
Akhenaten judged whether someone should be granted an afterlife, and operated the scale of justice.
Another factor in the survival of religion is the existence of poverty, suffering and exploitation in real life, from which religion promises the salvation in the afterlife.