why does the Islamic heaven sound as gaudy as a russian pimps bedroom?
September 12, 2014 at 3:23 am
Quote:"The tent is a hollowed out pearl, thirty miles high; in each corner of it the believer will have a wife whom no one else can see"
Quote:"Houris [beautiful, fair females] restrained in pavilions"
Quote:"There is no tree in Paradise that does not have a trunk made of gold"
I love the idea of living in a tropical garden paradise but it's pretty much ruined by not having a single nice normal wooden tree, being surrounded by trees of gold that I assume are worthless since in this heaven.
Quote:"Bricks of gold and silver, and mortar of fragrant musk, pebbles of pearl and sapphire, and soil of saffron. Whoever enters it is filled with joy and will never feel miserable; he will live there forever and never die; their clothes will never wear out and their youth will never fade."
These descriptions of heaven aren't in the quran so they are in hadith respected by most mainstream sunni Muslims.
To me they're just more evidence that these things are fabricated by fairly short sighted primitive.
Obviously men because of all the rewards which seemingly involve sex slave women.
Primitive and short sighted because what the hell do you do with gold, pearls and silver in heaven?
I normally debate with Muslims because I do think it's more challenging than Christianity but as far as descriptions of the afterlife go, Islam has probably the most primitive unrealistic idea of heaven than any religion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8ibe47F6j4
4 minutes 30 seconds into this video
the video goes into more detail about the jealousy and backbiting in heaven. The women who came from earth to heaven will be given status over the women already created in heaven (the sex slaves). The women of earth will mock the women of heaven in the form of some sort of song because they never prayed, fasted or gave to charity in the name of allah.
I'd probably rather go to valhalla, they still have annoying trees of gold there but there seems to be less monotony and having everything handed to you on a plate, there's more fighting and honing of warrior skills rather than the back stabbing bitchy jelousy that goes on in jannah.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
