Where Is She Now?

Journal entry 17




The options for where Evelyn is now seem to be heaven or hell, according to the traditional Christian schematics, with purgatory thrown in by the Catholics as a temporary transit station if needed.  




Even though the notion that heaven physically exists in the clouds was dispelled when we started flying planes through them, the notion that there is a place called “heaven” still prevails in western civilization.  




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Visions of Heaven

Our ideas about heaven have changed over the centuries, mostly its location and what it physically looks like in a misty, vaporous kind of way.




The Jewish philosopher Maimonides took a different approach than the endless philosophical and theological discussions, and said that it's best not to speculate too much on the afterlife because we can’t prove what happens there. It is better, he said, to focus on taking care of people here.

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