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	<title>Brand New Atheist &#187; Heaven</title>
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		<title>The Torture of Heaven</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Jones "Brand New Atheist"</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been married for 17 years. For 16 of those years I became increasingly concerned about entering heaven. The thought of entering heaven and not being with my wife was hard for me to accept. I didn&#8217;t like to think about it. I would distract myself anytime I started thinking about. I considered asking pastors [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve been married for 17 years. For 16 of those years I became increasingly concerned about entering heaven. The thought of entering heaven and not being with my wife was hard for me to accept. I didn&#8217;t like to think about it. I would distract myself anytime I started thinking about.</p>
<p>I considered asking pastors and other religious people their thoughts but I knew they wouldn&#8217;t have the answers I wanted. Because no one had the answers I sought. Apparently you have to die before you get your answers. Which often lead me to wonder why any religious person thought they had any answers since they obviously hadn&#8217;t died yet.</p>
<p>When we were first married it wasn&#8217;t something that I even thought about. But the more often we went to church the more I began to worry that she would spend eternity with her first husband. The more I learned about divorce and vows the more I thought she had promised her life to her first husband and our marriage wouldn&#8217;t be valid to God. I was concerned that her first vows were unbreakable and that we wouldn&#8217;t be together once we had made it into heaven.</p>
<p>You can imagine the torture this thought process can cause in a person. There are probably thousands of people who wonder the exact same thing right now. The only comfort I can provide to them is that gods are not real and the Bible and Quran are works of fiction. The lack of evidence for any god is everywhere and the evidence for the existence of any god is nowhere.</p>
<p>Once I realized the truth about gods and works of fiction I immediately knew that many of the worries I had throughout my life were total wastes of time. Imagine the countless hours that people continue to waste worrying about things that don&#8217;t exist.</p>
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