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Jennifer Lawrence: Is the Afterlife Narcissistic to Believe?

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Synopsis

Jennifer Lawrence recently offered a brief reflection on why she is leaning on the side of disbelief in the afterlife. She believes this doctrine has been cultivated by humanity's propensity to be narcissistic, and therefore considers it as possibly a convention made to sooth our egotistic belief that we are special and are owed eternal life. How do we as philosophers and Christians respond to this?