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Philosopher Bertrand Russell claims that one of the reasons we wantto believe in an afterlife is because of admiration of humanexcellence. What does he mean by this? Why does he claim it is nota good reason to believe in the afterlife?

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We as a human have fear of death and we have created a supreme power which we think is the one who controls death and we have also created a bubble that their is a life after death Almost every religion has talked about or wrote in their scriptures about afterlife    See Answer
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