Reading Time: < 1 minute After several years of campaigning from environmental groups, God has finally agreed to upgrade all heaven’s light sources to compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) energy-saving bulbs. “This has been coming for a long, long time,” said Tony Green, co-author of How Many Gods Does It Take? and the chairman of Too Much Heaven, a loose organization of environmental groups […]
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Would I have gone to heaven? Or hell?
Reading Time: 6 minutes Assuming that the incredibly incoherent notions of heaven and hell, a digital outcome for all humans, works and is the state of affairs, I was wondering recently about my own fate as a youngster. I don’t want to get into the long weeds of whether heaven or hell makes sense—neither of them do as I […]
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Heaven is hellish
Reading Time: 3 minutes Imagine living in bliss in heaven. How blissful would you be once you thought of the billions in torment all courtesy of your host? Worse, think of your friends and family who didn’t make the cut, writhing in God’s Perfect Plan.
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The remarkable story of Christina Johansdotter
Reading Time: 2 minutes Here’s a clever Christian loophole: if you want a quick trip to heaven but suicide is against the rules, murder someone and ask for forgiveness.
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Heaven and Hell as a Hot Mess
Reading Time: < 1 minute Check out the latest interview, this time with Gnostic Informant. We discuss the philosophy of heaven and hell, carrying on the conversation started with another video interview I did with MythVision (also below): And the previous one: Stay in touch! Like A Tippling Philosopher on Facebook: A Tippling Philosopher Please support by sharing or donating, […]
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Analysing the Basis for Heaven and Hell
Reading Time: < 1 minute I’m putting together a post on mimesis and Dennis MacDonald, but in the meantime, check out my interview on YouTube with MythVision on the philosophical basis, or lack thereof, for heaven and hell. Stay in touch! Like A Tippling Philosopher on Facebook: A Tippling Philosopher Please support by sharing or donating, or both! You can […]
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Is Bugs Bunny in Heaven?
Reading Time: 5 minutes Here is another guest piece from Dana Horton, who is interested in secular spirituality. There are some questions that could be raised from this, as I add below. Over to Dana: Is Bugs Bunny in Heaven? (Reading time 3 minutes) Last week we had a great time talking about evil and suffering, and whether these […]
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Pearced Off! #13 – Heaven is Compensation Not Moral Justification
Reading Time: < 1 minute I am running a series of the old podcast segments from my Pearced Off! section of the Skepticule Podcast (a British skepticism-based podcast now on hiatus) that I used to contribute to. Some of the earlier ones have some quieter audio. Apologies. They run at around ten minutes. Something to keep you company outside of Netflix and the news… […]
Posted inThe Secular
Tolerating Hell While in Heaven: 4 Lessons
Reading Time: 5 minutes God is immoral, God doesn’t exist, and the Bible is contradictory; you become someone else in heaven; God overrides free will; and perhaps you should reconsider Christianity.
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Silver-Bullet Argument #28: Because Heaven Is too Horrible to Endure
Reading Time: 4 minutes Those in heaven will be acutely aware of the ongoing torment in hell. Find out how Christians propose making heaven tolerable.