Editorial December 12, 1988 Issue

Afterlife—what difference does it make?

Michael D. Rissler

Theological views change. Concern about eternity, especially when it's associated with a far-off heaven or hell, is often diminished in the face of tremendous earthly pleasures and punishments.

Yet men and women are profoundly influenced by their ideas of eternal life. The ideal of justice and having to account for the character and decisions of one's life still lie at the heart of our struggle for a better world.

If life could somehow be manipulated, so that heaven and hell become merely a delayed reaction for earthly acts or omissions, then it may be just as well that we consign concern for an afterlife to obscurity and let "nature take its course."

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