I agree alex. Amongst my fellow Christians I may quibble about the meaning of the concept, but that's all they (heaven and hell)are concepts. As concepts the purest forms would be heaven is oneness with God and hell would be seperation from God. Hell could be a lake of fire, the atheists version of nothingness after death, or life on earth seperated from God. Heaven could be some Shangrila, 17 virgin palace, or the last flickerings of brain activity warped in space-time, by seperation of self, to seem like eternity. Neither are reasons to believe in/worship God and at best, could only be concepts to understand the afterlife.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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