What Happened to the Afterlife?

From Dracula to Frankenstein, to Freddy and Jason at Halloween, to Vampires (good ones), and finally, the greatest anti-heroes of them all - the Zombies and the Undead.

Is anyone else fascinated with America's obsession with discovering what comes next?

We are now the Autonomous Americans - truly knowing good and evil (somehow in our sea of opinions). Thus, authors, moviemakers, and cultural leaders are literally inventing afterlife personas. It's like a buffet table of ghouls from which I can choose. Maybe I'll be a Zombie, or a "nice" Vampire in the next life.

Do we realize our culture has crossed the line from creating entertainment characters to establishing paranormal worlds that are amoral in nature, and thus bypass the need to answer in any way for the lives we live, and how we live them, when we pass from this world?

Ironically, these virtual worlds come across as amoral and therefore harmless entertainment, but their roots are in the occult. They tap into a spiritual power not derived from a loving and holy Christ.

Thank God (er, uh, whomever he/she/it is that's out there sending nice waves our way), that we can make up our own spiritual world, devoid of a Holy Creator who might have actually put it together before we arrived.

Is it arrogance, or stupidity, or self-deception? Probably a combination, the motive being that we don't have to think about real possibilities. Consider this: Ideas Have Consequences, but we have thrown that reality into the sea of comfort and self-improvement. We need to create paradise on earth, and quiet that nasty pest of conscience.

Where is this pretend game leading, if not to the habit of ignoring any type of adversity, pain, or enemies in life as just video game imaginations? Thus, Islam can knock the door down while we bathe in our denial.

Hey, if the guy in the White House does it, why not everyone else?

The problem is this: what if this pretend utopia isn't real, and the 'experts' are wrong? What if there is a Holy God, a Holy Scripture, and a life filled with consequences for our actions, in this world and the eternal realm?

Someone I know claims to be an atheist, but says his prayers at night before bed, "Just in case I'm wrong!". Now there's an honest man! I know, the intelligentsia will scoff at what I write, as barbaric and outdated. Well, again, how can they be so sure?

Perhaps we need the "hell" scared out of us, eh?