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[QUOTE]Originally posted by First of Two: [QB] I'll go in with Monty on that one. God and I just HAVE to have a little chat some day. Heaven: Don't know if I'm going. Doesn't much matter. Either most of the theology I've heard is wrong, and I'm going, or its right, and I wouldn't WANT to. Heaven as I keep hearing it described (a vast city where you praise and sing throughout eternity) sounds DREADFULLY boring, to me. A heaven we get to choose, though.. that could have promise. Me, I'd want to spend eternity travelling to every planet and moon in the universe, just to see what they looked like. By the time I finished a circuit, everything back where I started would have changed, so I could do it all over again. Hell: Could somebody explain this to me again? Just what is the POINT of Hell? What useful purpose does it serve? Purgatory sounds better for everyone, I think. Purgatory should be a place where you are confronted with the reality of your actions, the truth about yourself and your place in the universe, and everything you did to screw it up. Then you start working to fix yourself... probably includes begging forgiveness of the people you hurt. Once you're better, then you ascend. Hell, if you'll pardon the pun, has no redeeming qualities whatsoever. You're there, you're stuck there forever. What good does that do? Eternal pain, despair, and torment would seem to be incompatible with the concept of a loving, all-powerful Deity. After all, omniscience and omnipotence means you're smart enough to figure out a way to redeem EVERYBODY, and CAPABLE of doing it, as well, doesn't it? I'll do my time in Purgatory, if that's what it takes... but Hell? That's just daft. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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