martin-peter-clarke, post:46, topic:8550"]
Nice rationalization, metaphor. But I’m not talking that and neither is religion, even Buddhism. We’re talking a continuation of awareness beyond death.
It is you who is talking in metaphor. Fact is that 95% of scripture is metaphorical.
There is no afterlife except in the memory of the living.
The continuation of awareness beyond death is physically impossible.
The mind is an emergent quality of the brain and that means when the brain dies the mind and awareness die with it.
But that is nothing to be afraid of, nothing at all. You continue to exist in the memories of the living minds (brains) you leave behind. Anything else is just wishful thinking.
Afterlife awareness is a human imaginary construct without any evidence. Else Jesus should have been well defined by now. But apart from small glimpses of evidence that he ever lived, there is not a shred of evidence that he continued to exist in some vague and undefined afterlife, except in the memories of the living.
To answer the OP.
IMO, all religions are regressive regardless of any fancy title you might assign to a specific offshoot.