Looks Like Heaven will Need to be on Earth After All
Many religions speak of a better place far off in another spiritual dimension where humankind will find peace and tranquility; where the mind rises to enlightenment, and the soul reaches Nirvana. Others look to the Second Coming when a messiah will appear on Earth and establish the Kingdom of God. In this kingdom, presumably, humankind will finally be united as one, brotherhood will reign, and there will be peace throughout the land. In each one of these utopian worlds, people will necessarily be the actors in the story. And the only way for this story to be worthy of a place called heaven is if the actors treat each other with the respect due as if the moral law is as true as the laws of science. Transporting ourselves to another world, in and of itself, will not make us better people, for we wind up being the same...
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