He has also started a series on his blog called "Sunday Sacrilege" which I have been enjoying. The latest installment is my favourite. Here's why:
Heaven. The funny thing is, for all my inability to imagine a viable vision of Hell, what probably comes closest is most people's version of Heaven. Who would want to even visit Puritan Heaven, with all its smug and judgmental inhabitants praising God non-stop with pursed lips suspicious eyes? What woman would want to live in Mormon heaven, and what man could dwell there for long without developing a smidgen of guilt?
Similarly, what woman would want a Muslim heaven? And what use is a bunch of virgins... you deflower them, yay, no sexual agency, but if that's your fetish doesn't it get old? Please don't tell me that the hymens grow back so you hurt them anew. That shit's high misogyny. What woman could possibly look forward to that?
The pointlessness and meaningless of eternity is nicely touched upon. Boredom and abject destruction of the self must really be appealing to some people, but a rational mind would either cease to be itself, or even the most servile would have doubt after AEONS. Bliss after bliss is nothing remotely appealing; it would indeed become torment of the damned.
So who's in with me? Let's take some tea with PZ.
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