The shared center — held across the tradition
Death is nothing to us.
Where death is, we are not; where we are, death is not. The fear is of an experience that by definition has no experiencer.
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The gods exist, and they are not thinking about you.
A blessed and indestructible being has no business with anger or favour. Prayer is therefore not wicked but pointless, and the fear of divine punishment is the largest avoidable source of human misery.
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