Death
In Our Time
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The Death Wish of Heaven
I think that very often the representation of heaven is a very thinly disguised expression of the death wish. So I think that we sometimes console ourselves with the idea that they did believe in the soul in eternal life, but actually I'm not sure that is true. Sometimes heaven was conceived as a release from pain. It was conceived negatively, if you would. And certainly as a way of making sense of pain that was going to be there regardless,. We are in pain because that is our condition. Heaven makes somehow that pain redempt of the idea, central to the Christian theology, that you can suffer your way. But hark, my pulse like a soft drum, beats my approach
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