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The Importance of Perfect Happiness
C.S. Lewis famously faced this question at the end of his book on called The Great Divorce, which is about a group of people from hell who take a best ride to heaven. They're invited to stay in heaven, but almost all of them, surprisingly, choose to go back to hell. And here's the basic kind of storyline he tells with respect to these people. Those in hell still want to spread their misery. These are people who have learned to manipulate the feelings of other people. So you can either allow a dog in the manger to be a tyrant of the universe or you can recognize there has to come a time when evil simply loses its ability to force and