Thread: The Quest for Happiness
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Old 10-23-2007, 03:50 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by CrazyFlamingos View Post

I beg to differ; religions do promise personal happiness.

For example if churches said follow Jesus because it is the right thing to do and in the end you get to go to Hell, absolutely no one would go to church. That magic pie in the sky is their main draw.
How do you explain Judaism, then? You get to follow *lots* of commandments (not just ten, but 613), and when you die you go to "the grave", not heaven.