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An easy out is to say that Buddha and his teachings were not patriarchal but Buddhist institutions were and many still are. But this is too simple.

I can tell you what the text in the Bible says about hell, but that text has been so heavily debated and influenced by cultural ideas (such as Dante's 'Divine Comedy') that to me, it often feels like one needs an advanced degree in religious studies to sort it out.

During our life, our mind and body are interconnected and interdependent, but that connection ends with death when the body becomes a lifeless corpse and the mind leaves the body to take a new life.

The Orthodox attitude is that everyone is a child of God, a crown of God’s creation.

Which leads us to the modern usage of the term, which has broadened to mean those who do not hold belief in any gods at all.

Catholic funerals usually have two parts, the Funeral Vigil and what's often referred to as the Funeral Mass.