๐ Heaven: A fool's paradise - Faith, Opinion - The Independent
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But even if you set aside the absence of even the tiniest thread of evidence, there is a great conceptual hole at the heart of heaven โ one that has gnawed at even its fondest believers. After a while, wouldn't it be excruciatingly dull? When you live in the desert, a spring seems like paradise. But when you have had the spring for a thousand years, won't you be sick of it? Heaven is, in George Orwell's words, an attempt to "produce a perfect society by an endless continuation of something that had only been valuable because it was temporary". Take away the contrast, and heaven becomes hell.