Can you make a God claim?

[Nope]

All my memories of my grandmothers are happy, except for their deaths and when I see them in heaven their deaths will mean nothing and I'll have all those wonderful memories of them and most all my family.

If theists realized the sole purpose of religion was to delude one into believing that something exists beyond death, then they would not be theists anymore.

I have unhappy memories from my childhood and adolescence. Not only was a socially awkward, very shy, bookish kid but my mother was very mentally and verbally abusive. I suspect that my mother had some sort of undiagnosed personality disorder. A psychologists that I saw once told me that my mother sounded like a sociopath but I suspect Mom had borderline personality disorder. There are memories with my grandmother that aren't pleasant, not because Nan was doing anything wrong but the circumstances surrounding those memories are bad. Still, I would not want to lose those memories because they made me who I am and part of why I loved Nan so much is because she showed so much strength and kindness toward me.
I do not want to go to a place of constant joy if it means that I lose myself or forget why Nan was important to me in the first place

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Now that I have the attention of the theists here, why aren't any of you answering my questions on theocracy in the religion section? None of my questions are any more difficult then this thread. You can even skip questions. I asked several. Don't answer on this thread because I don't want to hijack Robo's thread.