musings and recent eye opening links

In no particular order, here are some recent thoughts of mine.

There are those who have a seemingly fairy tale image of Heaven, or of the afterlife in a better plane of existence.  For some Christians, they seem to think that upon entering Heaven they will become almost omniscient, or almost all-knowing.  This may be a vain hope or false expectation.  If we as individual spirit souls truly are in an eternal servitor relationship with God, we ought not feel that we will become like God if or when we enter into the heavenly abode.

And, the atheist may accuse the sincere religious believer of clinging to an adult version of a fairy tale when he or she believes in a heavenly state.  But, as we have already done battle with atheists near and far on this blog, we will not spend precious time now to point out the flaws…