[Dialogue] Why is religion still alive?

[steve har]

   Why is religion still alive and...

   Bishop Spong, author of Reclaiming the Bible for a Non-Religious World and

   The problem of heaven
   http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1970695
   An argument against the rationality of desiring to go to heaven might
   be put in the form of a trilemma: (1) any state of being that both
   lasts eternally and preserves me as the person I am would be hellish
   and therefore would not be a state of being that I could have any
   reason to desire; (2) any state of being that lasts eternally and yet
   fails to preserve my personhood by turning me into a non-person would
   not be a state of being that I (qua person that I am) could have any
   reason to desire; and (3) any state of being that lasts eternally and
   yet fails to preserve my personhood by turning me into some other
   person would not be a state of being that I (qua person that I am)
   could have any reason to desire. This paper offers defenses of each of
   the three horns of this trilemma and concludes that there is no
   rationally compelling reason for any human being to desire to go to
   heaven.
   Steve Harrington

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From: steve har <stevehar11201 at gmail.com>
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Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 10:47:21 -0600
Subject: Fwd: The Problem of Heaven by Brian Ribeiro :: SSRN
http://www.bookforum.com/blog/archive/20120109#entry8848

Why is religion still alive?

Bishop Spong, author of Reclaiming the Bible for a Non-Religious World and

The problem of heaven
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1970695
An argument against the rationality of desiring to go to heaven might
be put in the form of a trilemma: (1) any state of being that both
lasts eternally and preserves me as the person I am would be hellish
and therefore would not be a state of being that I could have any
reason to desire; (2) any state of being that lasts eternally and yet
fails to preserve my personhood by turning me into a non-person would
not be a state of being that I (qua person that I am) could have any
reason to desire; and (3) any state of being that lasts eternally and
yet fails to preserve my personhood by turning me into some other
person would not be a state of being that I (qua person that I am)
could have any reason to desire. This paper offers defenses of each of
the three horns of this trilemma and concludes that there is no
rationally compelling reason for any human being to desire to go to
heaven.


Steve Harrington




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Steve Harrington