Catholicism - Spiritualism - Heathenism

These things said He: and after that He saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep. John 11:11

"The doctrine of the immortality of the soul is something

indispensable to almost every prominent erroneous religious system
--All or nearly all the gods of heathenism are believed to be dead men who were turned into gods by dying.
--Catholicism is indebted to this doctrine for all its saints who are believed to be mediators with God.
--Spiritualism is simply the embodiment of this doctrine of natural immortality." 

J.N. Andrews