The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) / quote 243 of 254
No sermons on the soul
‘In my forty years of being an evangelical, probably thirty years of remembering sermons, I don’t think I’ve heard a single sermon on the soul.’ Preachers tend to steer clear because it is all rather murky and complicated. This may seem reasonable, but in some ways I think it’s quite damning. Christianity’s great promise is of a life after death, reconciled with our maker. So if it can’t give a clear account of what that life will be like, it’s guilty of avoiding a defence of its most important central claim.