Joe, you lack imagination and you still half-believe in your old religion. You’ve rejected it, but not seen it with the eye of one who never had believed. I can think of a lot of places I’d rather be than the Christian Heaven. In fact, I’d rather be here than in the Christian Heaven.
“Heaven is a city 15,000 miles square or 6,000 miles around. One side is 245 miles longer than the length of the Great Wall of China. Walls surrounding Heaven are 396,000 times higher than the Great Wall of China and eight times as thick. Heaven has twelve gates, three on each side, and has room for 100,000,000,000 souls. There are no slums. The entire city is built of diamond material, and the streets are paved with gold. All inhabitants are honest and there are no locks, no courts, and no policemen.”
—Rev. Dr. George Hawes of Harrisburg, in a sermon
“So this is Utopia, is it? Well
I beg your pardon, I thought it was Hell.”
—Sir Max Beerholm, in a verse entitled In a Copy of More’s (or Shaw’s or Wells’s or Plato’s or Anybody’s) Utopia
Joe, you lack imagination and you still half-believe in your old religion. You’ve rejected it, but not seen it with the eye of one who never had believed. I can think of a lot of places I’d rather be than the Christian Heaven. In fact, I’d rather be here than in the Christian Heaven.
“Heaven is a city 15,000 miles square or 6,000 miles around. One side is 245 miles longer than the length of the Great Wall of China. Walls surrounding Heaven are 396,000 times higher than the Great Wall of China and eight times as thick. Heaven has twelve gates, three on each side, and has room for 100,000,000,000 souls. There are no slums. The entire city is built of diamond material, and the streets are paved with gold. All inhabitants are honest and there are no locks, no courts, and no policemen.” —Rev. Dr. George Hawes of Harrisburg, in a sermon
“So this is Utopia, is it? Well I beg your pardon, I thought it was Hell.” —Sir Max Beerholm, in a verse entitled In a Copy of More’s (or Shaw’s or Wells’s or Plato’s or Anybody’s) Utopia