I loved Stephen Colbert's comment a couple nights ago, about how the cross can be a symbol both for those who are Christians and those who are going to hell.
So one group of Christians, anyway, says that you have to do the Jesus Prayer to go to heaven. Something like, "Jesus, I confess that I am a sinner and ask you to be my lord and savior." And you have to mean it.
Another says you have to be baptized and go through a purging after death in order to get to heaven.
Another says that you work with God, and God is working to save you throughout life.
Does this make Christians severely split?
Or is it all symbolic anyway? One priest told me that he believed that heaven is so glorious that, when faced with the choice of acceptance or rejection of Christ when the door of Heaven was opened to him, even Adolph Hitler chose heaven.
I think Hell, in the end, is empty. Even Satan is hanging out in the summerland. We're all together for eternity. And we're happy. Bite me, gloomy types.
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I love being part of a faith that has no heaven or hell or satan in it. We often use the same sets of words about salvation, but they have totally different meanings. What really interests me is how an ordinary dump where people burned their garbage outside the walls of Jerusalem got transformed into hell in the first place.
ReplyDeleteI have a book about that...haven't read it..."The Birth of Satan."
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