Sir,-If man has wished sufficiently hard enough down the ages for a life after death, then no doubt evolution will supply him with something to carry on with after death, Otherwise the only survival is in the atoms that make up our bodies. Probably the period which has elapsed since man first stood upright has been toe short for very much eyolving to be done. What about the Chinese or the Indian version of life after death? They have just as much a claim to veracity as the Christian interpretation. Why do we Europeans give ourselves such airs, and assume that we are the salt of the earth? The Chinese are not Christians, but where could you find -a more ace-loying nation? Where could you find a better example of Christ
Himself than in Gandhi, who was an Indian? The Gospels were written many years after Christ’s death, and a lot of wishful additions were made to the story. Imagine trying to write the history of the Franco-Prussian war from the "eye-witness" accounts now, It is better to make the best of this life, and live for other people’s good, than to spend time and energy in preparing for the rext. If there is ‘life after death, I hope that I shall be showing some backward civilisation in some other part of the universe how to build a bridge.
CIVIL ENGINEER
(Christchurch).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 664, 28 March 1952, Page 5
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