How indeed can reasonable men and women believe in such a self-laudatory and cruel concept? Only the intolerant grasp of religious fervor can so dramatically numb and dumb the mind into a state of stuporous self-righteousness as to believe that only by one's beliefs, and as what Christopher Hitchens would call in his book God is not Great, beliefs which are essentially "plagiarism of a plagiarism of a hearsay of a hearsay, of an illusion of an illusion extending all the way back to a fabrication of a few nonevents."
Heaven and hell is the here and now, man creates it. Humanity can achieve heaven when reason and science become the instrument of understanding and hell, well, hell is the invention of those who want others to believe in their own delusions. The great philosopher Jean Paul-Sartre once said, "Hell is other people." He was certainly right, and when religious bigotries become the norm, hell incarnates itself in the form of unrequited violence and oppression against women, LGBT's and the simply different.
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