Heaven or Hell?

Mr Sticker has written an excellent and most amusing post entitled 70 good reasons not to be a martyr. Go read ... now.

His comment, "So, suicide bombers go to ‘Heaven’ and get the same thing, day after day, after eternal day? Mm-hm. Hasn’t God got a strange sense of humour?" reminded me, dear reader, of one of my favourite to-quote-from books. (Stop muttering at the back, yes I am going to quote from Good Omens again.)

The angel and the demon have found out that the anti-christ has been born signalling the end of days, more specifically the end of their days on earth and the return to their respective habitats. The demon isn't too pleased about this and is trying to get the angel to see his point of view ...

"'There are no theatres in heaven,' said Crowley. 'And very few films.'"

He then goes on to describe the story where, every thousand years, a bird flies to a mountain, sharpens its beak on it, flies back and then repeats the process until the mountain is ground down to nothing.

"'-then you still won't have finished watching the Sound of Music. ... And you'll enjoy it,' Crowley said relentlessly."

(Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman)

As good as Julie Andrews might be, I don't think I could stand that! :o)

Happy Journeys