One final judgment. No cycles, no rebirth, no dissolving of the self. You come to God alone, once, with your record (Qur'an 19:95).
Does it teach a final judgment, repeating cosmic cycles, or the end of the self?
The end of the self — no judgment, no cycles, no return. Atheist thinkers add that this is a reason for urgency about justice now: no afterlife will repair the injustices we leave unrepaired.
It teaches none of the three. Final judgment, cosmic cycles, and the end of the self are all claims on which the verdict stays suspended — the agnostic's report is that no one has produced the evidence that would let an honest mind choose among them.
A final judgment: history runs in a straight line to Christ's return, when — in the creed's words — 'he will come again to judge the living and the dead.' There are no cosmic cycles and no dissolving of the self: each person is raised and answers for their own life (2 Corinthians 5:10).
A final judgment, not cosmic cycles or the self's dissolution: the tradition teaches an annual judgment each Rosh Hashanah, judgment of the soul after death, and, at history's end, the resurrection of the dead — the closing articles of Maimonides' Thirteen Principles.
Repeating cycles, ended one being at a time: there is no last judgment and no judge — karma operates as law, not verdict. Nirvana is called the end of the self only loosely: the texts say no self ever existed to be destroyed; what ends is craving and the round of rebirth.
Repeating cosmic cycles, with judgment built into the machinery: karma is a continuous, automatic reckoning rather than one final court. As for the self, Advaita teaches the separate ego ends in Brahman — "as rivers flow into the sea, leaving name and form" — while the devotional schools insist the person endures forever in God's presence.
Cycles, with judgment inside them: the scripture pictures deeds weighed in God's court and souls sent through births accordingly — and the end of the separate self, since liberation is the ego dying and the soul merging into God.
None of these. It teaches no final judgment, no cosmic cycles, and no doctrine of the self's end — and its advocates count that restraint as honesty about the limits of politics.
None of the three: no final judgment, no cosmic cycles, and the self simply ends at death. Accountability is located here — before one’s own conscience, the law, and the people one affects.
None of these. Liberalism has no eschatology — no judgment day, no cosmic cycles, no teaching on the self's end; time, in the liberal picture, is simply open-ended, to be filled by free people.
None of these: no judgment, no cosmic cycles, no doctrine of the self's end. Where feminists hold such beliefs, they hold them from their religions, not from feminism.
SOURCES: Worldview scope as stated by its own thinkers (hooks, Feminism Is for Everybody)
None of the three: no final judgment, no cosmic cycles, no doctrine of the self's end. Its closest idiom is 'the judgment of history' — nations are vindicated or condemned by what they become; it offers continuity, not personal immortality.
THE SAME WORDING, PUT TO EVERY WORLDVIEW — EACH ANSWERS IN ITS OWN TERMS, IN ITS STRONGEST FORM
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