The thought of death is difficult and unpleasant, so we try not to think. We are always busy, the day is full; You need to think about the future, achieve something, have time for something, finish something. And suddenly - death. All our plans and hopes immediately come to an end. It sometimes seems strange, incomprehensible and even illogical. How so? I haven't had time to do what I needed to do yet, and what if this happens?

We do not know death, and therefore we fear it, perhaps more than it deserves. First of all, what scares us the most? For many, death is a kind of dreamless sleep. I closed my eyes, fell asleep, and there was nothing else. Darkness. Only sleep will end in the morning, and death is forever. Of course, it is a pity and bitter to lose everything we love on earth, but this is more grief than fear. Many people are most afraid of the unknown, but what will happen to us? I am frightened by the feeling that something unknown will happen to me, independent of my desire, and I will not be able to do anything. So we try to forget that death is inevitable. Each of us will have to cross this threshold. And we do not think about the most important thing and do not prepare for it. It may be asked: "What to think about and what to prepare for? It does not depend on us. Our time will come - we will die and that's it. There is nothing to think about." Many people do so.

And yet, each of us sometimes comes up with other anxious thoughts: "What if this is not so? And what if death is not the end, and after the death of the body, I, unexpectedly for myself, suddenly find myself in completely new conditions, retaining the ability to see, hear and feel? And most importantly, what if our future beyond the threshold depends to some extent on how we lived our time and what we were like when we crossed the threshold of death?"

Believers have already thought about all this, and when their time comes, everything will probably be clearer to them than to the so-called unbelievers. And not only more understandable, but also easier. But everyone will have to cross this line, and many will meet what they do not expect and do not think about. If you try to talk about this topic with one of the "progressives", you will most likely hear:

One obvious incongruity immediately catches the eye. Man has a mind; When faced with a question, he will consider all the possibilities. It can happen this way, or it can happen otherwise. Even if the problem is very unimportant, a reasonable person will certainly discuss both possibilities. Why, when faced with this serious problem that is bound to arise for everyone, why do so many people act differently in this case?

Death is inevitable, and after it there are only two possibilities – complete nothingness or some kind of continuation of our existence. We have called this future existence a possibility, although now, after the new discoveries made by medical science, it would be more correct to call the post-mortem existence not a possibility, but a probability, or even an evidence. And how many people either did not think about it at all, or if they did, then not very seriously. This means that the point is not in faith, but in the fact that they are not familiar with the facts, with the pros and cons, and just so suddenly decided that "this cannot be."

Why, how does it happen that a person passes by the most important, important for himself and, without thinking, believes that everything is clear to him and there is nothing to think about? After all, the facts tell a different story, and if you pay attention to them, it will immediately become clear that such a question as our fate after death is not solved by itself.

First of all, where did this almost universal unbelief that hung over humanity in the twentieth century come from and how did it develop? After all, it was not always so.

Christianity and all the great religions have always taught that man has not only a body but also a soul, and that when the soul dies, it leaves the body and continues to live in new conditions. Christianity has existed for almost 2000 years, and European civilization has grown and lived from its ideas. There have been periods of unbelief in history, and they have always been dark periods. They were characterized by a decline in morality, loss of peace and well-being, and a decrease in well-being. Wars, internal strife, epidemics, and famine raged more than usual. It was as if some life-giving force was leaving the nations. It is difficult to explain these dark periods of history by mere chance.

The French historian Taine writes: "Before our eyes and in the sight of history, the transformation of educated people and entire classes into beasts is taking place where the Christian faith is forgotten. Christianity is the great pair of wings necessary to raise man above himself... Always, during the 19th centuries, as soon as these wings weaken or are broken, public morality declines."

Only the true is eternal, the false is never durable. All religions, and even primitive pagan savages, in one form or another, believe in some other world and that. that death is not the end of existence. Belief in spirituality has embraced all mankind from the very beginning of its history to the present day.

The denial of God and all things spiritual has developed only in the last 100 to 150 years. It grew out of a materialistic philosophy that recognized only what was visible or accessible to other senses. This philosophy has now lost all scientific significance and is bankrupt, not only in theory and practical conclusions, but also in its very foundation, when it was discovered that matter is not something permanent, and that its primary basis is protons, electrons, and so on, energy. The understanding of the spirituality of the universe is inherent in people from eternity, the denial of any spirituality is short-lived and already leaves the world like any false teaching.

Many of us alive today have been brought up on materialistic ideas. Materialism prevailed not only in science and art, but also in schools, universities, in the press, in relations between people – everywhere. Nowadays, most people are still materialistic to the core.

Religion is in decline. God is no more. The afterlife is a fairy tale for the consolation of the dying. The mention of any spirituality testifies to your backwardness.