Thatโs ok. All the interesting people will be there.
Maybe there is more truth to Rickyโs quote then we know... perhaps we all have a personal god.
Many theists like to say, "everyone worships something, even if it's only himself". This faux wisdom is a product of their own lack of imagination. They are so used to the notion that they must / should worship that they can't imagine living without groveling before some god or god-proxy. How sad that they don't understand what intellectual freedom is anymore. To the point that they think worship is an inherent human need.
If I had to go to Hell, I would really like to go Dante's Limbo, where all the old Greek philosophers walk around all day discussing interesting topics - a bit like here, only forever. Technically, I suppose Limbo isn't exactly in Hell. It's a kind of ante-chamber. In Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus, Mephistopheles claims he is in Hell even as himself and Faust discuss (dispute) the big questions of life and death:
Meph. But, Faustus, I am an instance to prove the contrary (the pain of Hell),
For I am damned, and am now in hell.
Faust. How! now in hell!
Nay, an this be hell, Iโll willingly be damnโd here;
What? walking, disputing, &c.?
That sounds a lot more interesting than Heaven.
I just asked Siri to show me Hell on a map and it pulled up a map with a pulsing dot at my location, we are having oatmeal and coffee in Hell this morning.
I used to live about 150 miles from hell. Hell, Michigan, that is ... a little unincorporated town north of Ann Arbor. I always enjoyed the annual headline every year when it would hit 32 degrees F: HELL FREEZES OVER.
Maybe we should all move there and make a statement!