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...wasn’t heaven, but it was about as good as purgatory gets...
...year ago, scholars got access to a bizarre document from about A.D. 150 called The Gospel of Judas. In it, Jesus promises Judas heaven for turning him in and maligns the rest of the Apostles for sacrificing their followers...
...horrors that follow breaches of the law." And so it has been with the religious conservatives who have overwhelmed the latter-day Republican Party. For preachers like Jerry Falwell, James Dobson and Pat Robertson, the prospect of hell has always been far more vivid than the possibility of heaven. Presidential candidates like Robertson, Pat Buchanan and Gary Bauer have loaded up on the "Thou Shalt Nots" and rarely, if ever, mentioned the grace and serenity that come from doing "for the least of these...
...moments of joy, then, in “Burning Bright,” amidst seemingly interminable sorrow.“I don’t see why there has to be just the one or t’other,” Jem suggests, referring to the binary of heaven and hell, but also to that of innocence and experience, country and city. “Can’t there be something that’s more a bit of both?”“That’s the world, Jem,” Maggie sagely...
...suggest that a believer should deny being a Christian, even if the penalty were death. But he challenges leaders who encourage people to "die for God" with what he thought were false promises - huge rewards in heaven, and guaranteed resurrection...