Nietze was wrong, God is undead.

You get recycled, that's what

Nope, Satan got the shit beaten out of him, and didn't die. Your afterlife can just become suckier.

I love this reflection. It kind of shines a spotlight on the fallibility of mainstream religions under rational thought. Could there be something after death? Sure. But the stories people are peddled arent based on any truth, it's just telling people what they want to hear to get them to join the club.

There's a people heaven, and a dog heaven, and a monkey heaven, a bird heaven, etc. Like, what? There's an estimated 8.7 million species on earth, you think there's a heaven for each of them? When evolution spins off something new or species cross breed, like a liger from a lion and tiger, does a new heaven just pop into existence?

Mainstream depictions of heaven are bunk.

Child mortality was high back then, eh?

Edit: just saw the Anakin after.

I hope in a separate heaven then. Or hell? Is a mosquito automatically evil, just because they do evil things (like sucking blood) and literally nobody likes them, not even their predators?

They are dildos, for the giants.

Can you explain the Anakin joke, then?

If I'm not mistaken, Buddhism had a being that was the ghost of a ghost. Yes, ghosts could die. Probably that's the case.

not the mosquito's fault, is it?

So, what happens if you've survived a spouse and remarried? Do you have to choose who you want to spend eternity with?

What about adopted and surrogate kids: do they have to hang out with their biological parents now?

Heaven is such a ridiculous concept.

Jehovah's witness fan art makes for such great memes.

No, but i guess it has another meaning than what i initially thought.

Yeah the dish washing, that is seriously an amazing part of the story. But I digress, I was referring to the part where Alex is going to “trial”, with the judge a god of gods (I should re-read it, my explanation is terrible).

Is it? It's not like he had many opportunities after, on account of, y'know, being on the Death Star when it blew up.

"Evacuate? In our moment of triumph?"

ICE

I received a flyer for "Let's celebrate Jesus' death" this April. Terrible choice of words

USAF

Or what if the apes did go to heaven? All of them? From all time. That's a lot of apes for the early humans to deal with.

That's partly why I don't believe in the existence of heaven or hell

It's exactly as it sounds. Anakin in Star Wars ended up going nuts and slaughtered an entire class of children training to be Jedi.

From Wikipedia:

Jehovah's Witnesses believe that a "little flock" of 144,000 selected humans go to heaven, but that God will resurrect the majority (the "other sheep") to a cleansed earth after Armageddon.

I feel like the presence of the headstones and the children more points to the latter belief, that God will resurrect the dead after Armageddon or whatever.

Like, God has resurrected your kid's dead grandpa, straight out of the grave, and now you're forced to deal with your shitty father-in-law for eternity

Iranian mommies and daddies when the war with US starts:

Wow. Uh... I don't know what I expected.

Or Palestinian ones on a Tuesday

There's an obvious answer; god decides. You asked that question which made him angry so you're going to hell now. Its how we know you're not one of the elect

Just another school shotin' for jesus!

It’s always funny when they depict adults being reunited with their children. How come those adults aren’t depicted as children being reunited with THEIR parents.. and recursively so on and so on.

Eternity? Marriage is only "til death do us part!"

What if you bought your wife an eternity ring?

Yes, you have to choose which eternity you want, though it doesn't necessarily have to be with either spouse.

Source: this documentary

If there's an afterlife and we're counting the unborn, then it's swimming in an endless sea of sperm

Sometimes you just need to be able to kill a mf in heaven.

And that happens a lot.

So cemetery.

an endless sea of sperm

Also if heaven(s?) are tailored to individual's liking.

If I don't want afterlife I can just stay dead??

Maybe they ask you to accept terms at the beginning & if you refuse they just let you have your peace, one life was enough.

And it means that in the end we'll all have to face Harambe.

Why are some people old in heaven? I’d want to have a 23yo body forever, thank you very much.

And why are some people children in heaven? Does this mean they’ll never develop and get to know what it is like to be mature?

It’s almost like this whole Heaven concept hasn’t been thought out very far.

It's not like it came with her!

Based on the all dogs go to heaven philosophy, I would say the cutoff would be in the other direction.

Well, I don't think all organisms have free will

I don't think sucking blood is evil. It's not like it betrays anyone. It's pretty open about it's nature.

Bodies don't go to heaven. They decompose and become one with the earth.

I think when first contact happens between loved ones, a common reality is unconsciously agreed upon where the family comes together under the bodies they inhabited at the time they were all together.

Since the long deceased ones have likely watched the life of the newly deceased with interest, I think that initial reality is then slowly pushed away and the (grown) children take on their more mature forms and the grand parents take on their younger forms, and they all walk away from the meeting as equals

That's how I'd do it

Same for vampires and ghouls.

I guess if they were more common, they would also be seen as pests rather than evil

But then someone else they all know dies too. And then they have to reset to that person’s last memory? What a pain!

A level of Bible fanfiction Danté would be proud of

IRL != the haternet

Don't worry. This isn't real. It's a painting or ai made from someone's imagination.

I would be reassured by your comment but it’s not real, just made from your imagination.