@Rattigan: it is only a paradox if you do not believe in things like an immortal soul. Judaism, and by extent, Christianity are faiths that have developed over literally 4-5000 years, likely longer, you can’t just redirect a core tenet in a single argument in a single thought from a single person over the past roughly 100 years. It’s all connected and has been refined so far, it is ‘true’ in the sense that everything around the faith, around our culture, our laws etc are imbued with the ‘fact’ that we have an immortal soul, disconnected from the body.
And yes, I’m not saying this is a scientific fact, I’m just saying this is a fact in how we organize our lives. If we did not believe as such, laws around life and death in general (murder, manslaughter, probate, abortion, euthanasia, suicide …) would look vastly different, Europe and Canada is going a very slight way into rejection of those tenets and as a result are ‘cheapening’ death in their laws, they promote euthanasia and abortion as collective cost savings, as a result murder becomes less punishable (on average ~10 years in jail with recent cases having gone as low as 2), probate law has become much less about individual families but more about societal benefits.