| What's Nirvana then? Or the Holy Land that all those suicide bombers believe they get an express ticket to when they incinerate a bus? Even the pagans believed in heaven - the Elysian fields and the Pantheon (though the latter was more of a place where the Gods hung out and shot pool). It isn't just a Christian construction. You need to mellow a bit.
And you don't even need to follow rules to earn your wings - some genius threw Last Rites into Catholicism - if you beg for forgiveness before death, you pretty much get a ticket straight to heaven. |