(July 20, 2022 at 8:10 am)GUBU Wrote: @h311inac311 Just a post scriptum, from what I know of christianity (which is a damned sight more than you do, I wager), hell is preferrable to heaven. What reward is it to be an eternal slave to a sadistic tyrant and having to constantly sing his praises? He's eventually going to do awful things to you to satisfy his psychopathy. Better to hang out with history's more interesting and more moral people.
This made me think of Ehrman's book "Heaven and Hell" which I read recently. I know opinions on Bart are sometimes mixed, but he's presenting more of a history of different heaven and hell traditions in this than opinions, mostly. I was unaware of a lot of it, and it made me wonder why people are even in fear of hell (or hopeful of what heaven would be) given the changing and confusing narrative.
And of course, Hitchens' famous analogy of heaven as a spiritual North Korea.
