" earth. It took another five hundred years for the metaphysical dogma of living once and dying once to become definitively established in the Western hemisphere, with the result that all morally important decisions had to be squeezed into a single life. The consequence was that the dramatic fear of hell replaced the epic concern about reincarnation (the fear of hell is, incidentally, a basic factor of what is called “political theology,” but which should more accurately be described as the imperial management of the fear of death). "

― Peter Sloterdijk , The Art of Philosophy: Wisdom as a Practice