A Damnable Heresy: The Corner Stone of Heathenism

But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies... 2 Peter 2:1

"The doctrine of the immortality of the soul is something indispensable to almost every prominent erroneous religious system. It is the corner-stone of heathenism. 

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. It is a fundamental idea in the system of purgatory. In fact, Romanism is as much dependent on this doctrine as is heathenism.
Spiritualism is simply the embodiment of this doctrine of natural immortality. It is incapable of existing without it.
Is it not strange that this corner-stone of heathenism, Roman Catholicism, and Spiritualism, should be also the corner-stone of modern orthodoxy? 

Yet such is the case. It is in these days esteemed the marrow and fatness of Christianity. 

---And so prevalent is the doctrine, that the advent of Christ, the resurrection of the dead, and the Judgment are rendered almost obsolete by it." J.N. Andrews