Friends Church Sign of the Week
Number 8 in a series.
Those who seldom think of heaven are not likely to get there.
This is a masterful example of the “Veiled Threat.”
Translation: If you don’t accept our brainwashing, you are likely to be tortured for all eternity.
“I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.” — Isaac Asimov
“I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.” — Thomas Edison
“In heaven all the interesting people are missing.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
“There are many millions of people who believe the Bible to be the inspired word of God… They forget its ignorance and savagery, its hatred of liberty, its religious persecution; they remember heaven, but they forget the dungeon of eternal pain. They forget that it imprisons the brain and corrupts the heart. They forget that it is the enemy of intellectual freedom.” — Robert Green Ingersoll
“Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.” — Mark Twain
“Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable, that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.” — George Bernard Shaw
“I was driving alone one day and I saw a hitchhiker with a sign saying ‘Heaven.’ So I hit him.” — Steven Wright
“My intensive study of the subject has led to the following conclusion: there cannot be more than one Christian. Everybody else will go to hell, and when that Christian dies he will go to heaven and his first duty will be to have a long talk with God. There is some very slight possibility that he will let God stay.” — Michael Painter, on alt.atheism.
“Imagine there’s no heaven, It’s easy if you try, No hell below us, Above us only sky…” — John Lennon
