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How would the high sparrow respond to there being nothing after death?


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Suppose the high sparrow met Beric after his resurrection and the high sparrow asks him what he saw after his death. Beric tells him there is no other side and he saw only darkness. Also he somehow meets lady stoneheart and Jon snow and he gets the same answer from them. How would he respond to this? 

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Does the faith have a notion of afterlife? We have some vague saying on the Father judging the dead but we don't have a clear image of what that entails.

actually part for the drowned god, the afterlife is strangely absent in most religions of Westeros we encounter. 

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On 5/28/2023 at 2:50 PM, hnv said:

Does the faith have a notion of afterlife?

In AFFC Cersei claims that Ser Osney will get a taste of the Mother's sweet milk in the afterlife. And of course, there are Seven Hells that according to Lancel "await sinners who do not repent their sins".

 

As per the original question... I don't think that the High Sparrow  would be particularly troubled by that. The fact that they have no memories after their deaths could be explained in multiple ways: theIr soul still hadn't departed their body, the gods erased their memories to avoid revealing too much to the other mortals, the gods knew that they would be revived so they didn't allow them to enter the seven heavens... It's not difficult to justify. On the contrary: the very fact that they were revived after dying proves that the soul doesn't die with the body, and therefore, there has to be an afterlife.

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On 5/28/2023 at 10:50 PM, hnv said:

Does the faith have a notion of afterlife? We have some vague saying on the Father judging the dead but we don't have a clear image of what that entails.

actually part for the drowned god, the afterlife is strangely absent in most religions of Westeros we encounter. 

well we hear about the seven hells. i assume there is some kind of heaven

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