Thursday, December 22, 2005
Barbara Walters Looks for Heaven
Anyone catch Barbara's show the other day about the search for Heaven? I found it very interesting. I couldn't help but notice the similarities between the various extremists represented on the show. In specific, radical Muslim and evangelist. Both believe their beliefs are the exclusive route to heaven. Both said that anyone else not sharing there beliefs was destined for Hell. Walters makes the point about how lopsided this would make Heaven and Hell. In other words, many more of us will be in Hell than in Heaven. They readily admit that this is in fact the case. I can't help but to think that this would make the whole Human experiment, by God, a miserable failure. When so many more fail the test than past, what more can we assume? Are we all to believe that the whole reason for life is simply to provide Hell with sufficient fuel, in the form of humans, to keep the fires burning for all eternity. I absolutely refuse to believe that any God capable of creating the Universe would be anywhere near this petty. This type of failure is more suited to people than to a God. I highly doubt that this was the plan all along. According to some of the Muslims, those actually reaching heaven will be rewarded with Youths specifically created to satisfy the lust of the lucky contest winners. Again, I somehow doubt Heaven exists to provide orgiastic bliss to those recipients. Wouldn't such an existence be more akin to Hell than Heaven. It certainly would be for the ones created for the sole purpose of satisfying the lust of those in Heaven. This is especially clear when considering that the same people who say that this is the case will be quite quick to kill anyone who led such an existence here on Earth. So, on Earth we must live in an existence completely devoid of all of life's pleasures so that when we get to Heaven we can experience all of life's pleasures. Yeah, O.K.