heaven

Many Christians (and, I presume, believers of other religions) believe or hope that they will somehow get reunited in Heaven with their family and other loved ones after they die and get the thumbs-up by their god. I have often wondered how they will recognize each other. Will they meet the...

Just curious as to the general consensus would be from the skeptic community?

I had a dream the other night in which I got pulled into heaven but it was full of cocktail parties and people playing card games. That was not my idea of Heaven. I was so confused I asked someone who works there if I was in Heaven or Hell, because to me it looked like hell. The only way to...

My sister just told me a very strange story. A few years ago she was visited by Mormon missionaries and spent more than a few hours chatting with them. I had known this. What I didn't know was that her extremely high strung dachshund, Felix, actually bit one of them. (Felix had pretty strong...

(Copied from an exchange I'm having at atheistforums.com.) So, believers, do think this is the case, that there is an alternative reality built just for you?

A hypothetical question for the believers here, one which I heard on an awesome podcast called A Christian and An Atheist... Suppose that God (and by "God" I mean the monotheistic Abrahamic God of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) exists, but He doesn't grant immortality to His followers. God...

Earlier today, when in bed with my girl friend and doing what bf and gf like to do, I asked her if I was already in heaven. Which immediately brought up the question: Will we have more or less sex, or any at all, in (the Christian) heaven than here on earth? And if not: Who wants to go to...

Right before any of us atheists die, god stops time for us. One unit of Planck time just shy of us dying. In this period, god completely addresses our arguments. QED. We have no response and god proves any possible argument against his existence or qualities to our full understanding. We...

D'Souza at it again (quantum/theoretical woo) Can't wait for the "scientific" evidence. http://www.newsweek.com/id/220296?GT1=43002

So, you know the famous joke where St Peter tells a bunch of new arrivals to heaven to be very quiet when they're walking past some very high walls. 'Why?' asks one of the new recruits. 'Well,' Pete says, 'that's where the Catholics live. They think they're the only ones in here.' I wouldn't...

You know, when I was a christian, I was obsessed with the idea that there was no sex in heaven. It was the bane of my existence. Am I supposed to not get to experience to joy of marriage and having kids because I wait until marriage and then WHAM! Christ returns and I'm turning into a mindless...

My question to the Heaven/Hell people- Does God grade on a curve? or on a straight scale? In other words, on days where more evil people die, does that give less good people a better shot at getting into heaven? Or, if you happen to die on a day when mostly very good people died, and you...

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1710844,00.html Church of England Bishop calls the common view of heaven a It is an interesting interview; he does not explicitly say there is no heaven. He still talks of ecclesiastical miracles; however, I thought you all would like to read this...

What a deal, at twice the price! :D http://reserveaspotinheaven.com/

This question's been bothering me recently. Suppose there is a such thing as Heaven. Eternal paradise. Assume for the sake of argument that it exists, and that everyone is destined for Heaven upon death unless they have committed a "mortal sin". So, wouldn't killing somebody be doing them...

My Aunt married a man who fathered a daughter. He sexually molested her from younger than five to just before she graduated from High school. She never told anyone what he did until she was deathly ill with cancer. She died but before she did she told the whole sordid tale. This made me hate...

"Pope says hell and damnation are real and eternal" Sounds like someone slipped the Pope a copy of that Russian deep-drilling-to-Hell tape...

Barbara Walters of ABC News (USA) aired a report about people's beliefs about heaven. My reaction is that the report was interesting. Many were interviewed, and a number of conclusions seemed pretty clear:No one has any objective proof that there is a heaven;There considerable disagreement as...

I don't remember seeing "Christmas in Heaven" in "The Meaning of Life". Is my memory faulty or was a bowlderized version shown in the US?

well.....they've managed 12metres so far.....nearly there guys! :) http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1863755,00.html see, what they need to do is harvest spider-web strands and thread it together to form super strong ropes......if only i was in charge, i'd have us up there in no...

We are told by believers that we must deny ourselves the pleasures of the flesh in this life in order to earn our reward in the next. So, the way I see it Hell would be the boring place with all the monochrome scenery and harps and boring stuff while heaven would be all booze 'n' drugs 'n'...

It occurred to me, thinking about the Christian notion of the afterlife, that the standard life, death, resurrection, judgement, afterlife scenario completely renders the struggle of labour irrelevant. By that struggle I mean not only the struggle for social justice, but also the struggle more...

1: And it came to past, in the fifty third billionth year of the holy eternity. 2: Sayth Jesus Christ savior of man, to his father Yahwa, “my lord, hath not their suffering in hell gone on for long enough?” 3: And the Lord God said “is not my word eternal and does it not say that their damnation...

Posted on another board--Not sure if this is interesting enough to also post here, or if the nyquil is just kicking in. Which do you think the typical christian would pick? 1) You die a christian; your soul goes to heaven; Only, it's the muslim version. You've been believing a lie all your...

I didn't see anyone else post this article yet, so here it is... It gave me a good chuckle, but in an uncomfortable sort of way. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11434439/site/newsweek/ What a loon. What a bigot. What a waste of money. But thanks for anther great reason to become an atheist.

I got this in an email...thought I would share. :) Dear Pastor, I am 8-years old and I am so sad now cause my dog, Scruffy is awfully sick. The pet doctor told my mom that Scruffy has only a few weeks to live because he has a bunch of cancers everwhere. The doctor told my mom that I am gonna...

From this week's commentary, reader Michael McCarron wrote: "It makes me sad that so many grown adults are placated with such base niceties as "white lights," "stairways with happy dogs and cats," and "everything was green and compassionate." To think that way demeans your life and makes you...

Turn it on. Quick!

Oh spare me: I just heard a commercial that Barbara Wa-Wa is doing a special (on ABC?) tonight about "heaven." What's it like? How do we get there? Is our present existence heaven or hell? Opinions from the Dalai Lama, various religionists and Richard Gere. Aaaaaaarggggh!! Oh well. No...

Oh spare me: I just heard a commercial that Barbara Wa-Wa is doing a special (on ABC?) tonight about "heaven." What's it like? How do we get there? Is our present existence heaven or hell? Opinions from Richard Gere, various religionists and Richard Gere. Aaaaaaarggggh!! Oh well. No...