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“The slightest touch of a body causes great torment to the deceased person’s soul,” a yeshiva student explained,

Screwy.

7 posted on 01/31/2006 8:44:55 PM PST by solitas (So what if I support an OS that has fewer flaws than yours? 'Mystic' dual 500 G4's, OSX.4.2)
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To: solitas

no less so than embalming corpses and then putting them on display before placing them in the ground to be devoured by worms.


8 posted on 01/31/2006 8:52:06 PM PST by iPod Shuffle
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There's some weird doctrine that the soul lingers for a certain number of days. St. Paul, who was quite the educated Orthodox of his day before becoming a Christian, had no use for that superstition -- rather, to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. (Or for the damned, to go to hades)


10 posted on 01/31/2006 9:11:33 PM PST by The Red Zone
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