Comments on: OPINION & EDITOR’S COMMENT: In praise of the future http://warincontext.org/2007/09/30/opinion-in-praise-of-the-future/ ... with attention to the unseen Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:49:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Christian Reader http://warincontext.org/2007/09/30/opinion-in-praise-of-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-59 Christian Reader Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:24:50 +0000 http://warincontext.org/2007/09/30/opinion-in-praise-of-the-future/#comment-59 "One can argue that life is sustained by irrational hope — there is after all no happy ending." It's exactly the other way round, for Christians at least. (I cannot speak for followers of other religions.) Jesus' Cross was followed by his Resurrection. And the Apostles' and martyrs' often terrible deaths have been rewarded by sharing in Christ's glory, in their souls for now and after Judgment's Day in their bodies as well. “One can argue that life is sustained by irrational hope — there is after all no happy ending.”

It’s exactly the other way round, for Christians at least. (I cannot speak for followers of other religions.)

Jesus’ Cross was followed by his Resurrection. And the Apostles’ and martyrs’ often terrible deaths have been rewarded by sharing in Christ’s glory, in their souls for now and after Judgment’s Day in their bodies as well.

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