[Should we be cremated?]
Not if we can help it - cremation generally express disbelief in the importance of the resurrection of the dead.
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Didn´t you read that verse in which Jesus said that, we´d be like angels?, in that cases, ashes to ashes, remember, that we´re going to put the whole thing of our existence upside down.
Very common Christian belief, and, I believe, part of Catholic dogma. It's goofy, but it's not especially "Holy shit, fundamentalism!".
I thought this kind of thinking went out with the pharoahs. I don't know of any christians (or anyone else in the 21st century) who think that life after death depends on the preservation of the corpse. If it did, that's bad news not only for anyone who died in a fire or some other tragedy that consumed the body; but also for anyone who dies since, given enough time, every dead body eventually rots and every skeleton crumbles into dust no matter how much embalming fluid was pumped into it.
Actually, while Catholicism discourages cremation, it doesn't expressly forbid it, just as long as the ashes are interred and not scattered.
And being against cremation expresses disbelief that God can ressurect someone from ashes. If he can make a man from mud, why can't he remake a man from ashes? You are limiting God, you sure you want to do that?
Okay, then, that's it -- I don't want to be cremated after all. I want my body mummified, then placed in a secure vault with marvelous painted carvings on the walls and on my nested sarcophagi, surrounded by all the neat stuff I'll want with me in the afterlife, including little statuettes representing me to answer for me and do all my work.
I've always wondered how that resurrection of the dead stuff worked. My father's father died when my father was 12. He never saw my father as a grown man. I, on the other hand, never saw him before he was in his thirties. Regardless of what body got resurrected, it would have to appear as a complete stranger to one or the other of us.
Okay, what happens to those who die in fires, who are burned to cinders? Or those that were cremated by the Nazi in WWII?
I'd rather shuck off my mortal husk in the wilderness...and be buzzard shit for a spell instead of rat shit. I mean, come on! There's a lot of high-quality nutrition going to waste, sealed up in a box.
One, you won't be feeling it when the vultures rip into your liver.
Two, you won't be needing a dead body any more, so be generous with it!
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