What is heaven?

lealdragon
Fri, 19 Jan 2007 23:32:07 +0000

Thanks, surfette and Jman, and I totally agree! I’m a big believer in the philosophy that each person should have the freedom to believe or do whatever they want, provided it doesn’t impose on another person’s freedom. (One person’s freedom ends where another’s begins.)

Narrow, dogmatic religions are usually fear-based. Often people have a truly beautiful and life-changing spiritual experience and that’s why they convert, but perhaps just as often other people convert out of the fear of going to ‘hell’ and then they try to convert others the same way.

I generally try to NEVER do ANYTHING out of fear. (Unless one is being chased by a tiger!)

I think LOVE is a better motivator than fear.

I have a bumper sticker on my car that has the symbols of various religions, including science, and it forms the shape of ‘COEXIST.’

There are a few different versions of it: