2.26.2003

Religion is morbid. I don't think that many people think more about death than people who've been involved with or immersed in a religion, such as Christianity, for an extended period of time.

Such people forced to always consider their souls, and the fate of their souls after death. They are focused on the afterlife. They welcome death on this Earth and meeting God and living an everlasting life in uptopia, aka Heaven. They speak of the unrepentant, who will spend an eternity in the fiery pits of Hell after death... those who never know when they are going to die and who will be unprepared to face the judgement throne, upon which God sits. And they, my mom included, zealously and desperately try to save those poor doomed souls, mine included. They repeatedly ask you to ponder, heavily, "If you died today, where would you go? Would you go to Heaven or Hell?"

I've been thinking about death for over 25 years. I probably think about it more than most of you, and have a viewpoint on it that most of you don't. But don't let that scare you.