Heaven (religious heaven) makes people feel better about death.
When I die I want to be burned and then have my ashes released over my little league field where I spent a large portion of my youth. That is my heaven.
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"For thousands of years humans were oppressed - as some of us still are - by the notion that the universe is a marionette whose strings are pulled by a god or gods, unseen and inscrutable." - Carl Sagan
Freedom consonant with responsibility.
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