Happy Birthday, Hitch!

[Fake Messiah]

First, to show that what he is saying is true, we would have to find a Christian who says that heaven would be like North Korea. [..] The whole point of heaven, though, is that it is supposed to be a happy place.

Or, hear this, maybe Hitchens read the Bible where heaven is described as North Korea. Like Revelation 19:14 says, "The armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses." - Do you see that? It mentions there is an army in heaven - just like in NK. Not a very secure and happy place when you are surrounded by soldiers. Then in Matthew 11:12 From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence and the violent take it by force. Suffering and violence are not attributes of a happy place.

Revelation 12:7 says there was war in heaven. If a war occurs there it's not a happy or a perfecr place and if it happened before why couldn't it occur again? Moreover, why would anyone seek to enter a realm in which war is a possibility when that is what nearly all people are trying to avoid? If war is possible in heaven, why wouldn't all other nefarious activities be equally plausible? After all, it would be hard to imagine a war without lying, stealing, cheating, brutality, killing, inhumanity, and all the other activities we have all grown so accustomed to in bad parts of this world.

Then Matthew 16:19 describes Heaven as a totalitarian place: "I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven."
How could people be bound or restrained in a perfect place of freedom? But, then again, perhaps it isn't that free?

Or the whole character of angel Michael who is a general of God's army. And so on...