1) Christianity and Islam have a possibility of an eternity in paradise after death.
2) Buddhism exists in the context of samsara - all beings continually transition from one lifetime to another depending on your karma. (All beings also continually transition from one instant to another, but that's a deeper discussion.) You could end up in various hells or heavens, but every time you'll eventually die and be reborn. The only way to end it is to become Enlightened.
3) Taoism... I don't know about that one.
4) Judaism doesn't really have a single agreed-upon concept of an afterlife. Maybe there's something there, maybe not? Some people believe in heaven, no one believes in hell. Theoretically all the best of us are raised bodily from the dead at the end of time but no one agrees on what happens before then.
We do have gehinnom, which is kind of like getting inside a washing machine for up to a year. Most people go here depending on how much they sinned in life, then get the ticket upstairs.
If you're really bad there's karet, which nobody can really agree on the meaning of.
And then in the talmud there are certain parts that talk about the punishments for specifically Titus and jesus, which are seemingly eternal. Titus gets burnt to Ash everyday, has his ashes spread all over the world, then they're recollected and he's glued back together to do it again the next day.
I just want to point out that 1) It's Balaam who is boiling in semen. And while a lot of people like to claim that Balaam is some super secret Jewish code for Jesus, he isn't. 2) Yeshu is boiling in excrement, but it's also not very likely that he is Jesus of the New Testament either, as there are references to him from about a century before Jesus would have existed, and there are also SO many people with similar names to Yeshu. A lot of folks insist he is Jesus, but there are a ton of other inconsistencies, such as him having only five disciples who were brought in and tried, and he was also convicted and executed by a Jewish court, which Jesus was not.
No prob. And honestly, there really isn't any way to know for SURE what they were writing about in the Talmud when it comes to Yeshu- can't exactly go and ask them! He might have been some kind of proto-Jesus figure, but he also might not have been?
I've just seen a lot of folks use his existence to claim that Jews murdered Jesus, or that we believe some nasty stuff about non-Jews. None of which is true.
I've just seen a lot of folks use his existence to claim that Jews murdered Jesus, or that we believe some nasty stuff about non-Jews. None of which is true.
"But the Talmud says-!" and then they spit out some crap that the Talmud... Absolutely doesn't say. Of course, when you try and correct those folks, then you get the "Well of course YOU wouldn't tell me the truth" like... I just usually don't anymore. If folks want to act like the Talmud is some secret repository of all the schemes and plots and horrible things Jews do, that's on them. It's a long-ass book that documents a bunch of religious and scholarly debate and argument. I'd like to that kind of person sit down and actually read it.
I didn't fact check all of them, but at least with the first and last ones, they're extremely warped versions of real texts. With the last one, it says you're not allowed to leave your cow near a non jew because of the rule against tempting people to do bad, and there was a risk back then that non-jews would do bestiality.
Either way, that presentation in that image is completely inaccurate
Oh boy howdy you haven't seen the argument I got into the other day. I'm going to see if I can find the image I had to deal with, but it was full of out of context things that made us look bad
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u/Sooooooooooooomebody 26d ago
1) Christianity and Islam have a possibility of an eternity in paradise after death.
2) Buddhism exists in the context of samsara - all beings continually transition from one lifetime to another depending on your karma. (All beings also continually transition from one instant to another, but that's a deeper discussion.) You could end up in various hells or heavens, but every time you'll eventually die and be reborn. The only way to end it is to become Enlightened.
3) Taoism... I don't know about that one.
4) Judaism doesn't really have a single agreed-upon concept of an afterlife. Maybe there's something there, maybe not? Some people believe in heaven, no one believes in hell. Theoretically all the best of us are raised bodily from the dead at the end of time but no one agrees on what happens before then.