(May 12, 2016 at 4:57 pm)The Reality Salesman Wrote:(May 12, 2016 at 4:21 pm)Rhythm Wrote:
I've thought that same thing. My mother is a devout Christian and she knows exactly where I stand when it comes to ideas of that sort, but I remember she came to visit a few years back and the subject came up. I asked her what she thought heaven would be like, and she painted me a euphoric picture of bliss. I said that was weird that she was able to picture being in heaven and enjoying herself there...she asked why? I said "because I won't be there, and you'd know why...and IF you WERE in heaven and I wasn't-then you'd know where I was instead...and for an eternity, you'd feel entirely blissful knowing that I was simultaneously being tortured in some alternative other realm?...I don't think I'd be able consider that state of mind to be paradise...an eternity of knowing my son was in agony somewhere praying for death...(awkward silence) -Lets have a drink!
How can anyone hold such conflicting views without the slightest hint of dissonance?...Unless, they really don't believe one of them...
..We try to find other things to discuss.
Heh. MY Mother is a bat-shit crazy fundie devout Xtian - - she'll tell anyone who will listen that she's going to be up there in her heaven taunting all of the evil people who are burning because they didn't believe in Jesus. She wants to watch them burn. (She never got invited to go evangelizing door-to-door, too dangerous. But I gotta admit, she had quite a style when it came to getting out of jury duty. She would start preaching and . . . the bailiffs practically carried her out of the courtroom - - twice.
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"The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children."- Albert Einstein
