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I actually think he's got a good point, Christianity is rejection of the finality of death-Christ was resurrected, everyone will go to heaven/hell, loved ones are looking down on us, etc. Not everyone worships for those reasons, but it's a critical belief of Christianity
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You're right that that's a mainstream Christian belief, but the funny thing is that it, like a lot of other things I find uncontroversially wrong about Christianity, stem from neoplatonism, which wormed its way into the tradition through fraud (c.f. the Pseudo-Dionysius).
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In that case I not only agree, but I think that scholars too are mostly frank about being in the same boat (i.e. being commited to "escapism"). E.g. Eleonore Stump talks of an "inconsistent set" - God's goodness, suffering, and our freedom - that tradition leads one to.
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