A now-retired pastor friend of mine loves attending family reunions for many reasons, one of them being that it gives him the opportunity to annoy his fundamentalist relatives.
"There are no fundamentalists in heaven," he will intone, "and that so for two reasons: One, they'll find out that things they believe with all their heart are not true, and that will be hell for them. And two, they won't be able to push other people around, and that will be hell for them."
The estimable James McGrath has a piece up titled, "Fundamentalist preachers on judgment day." Give it a read. Money quote from God:
“I knew that you would contest my judgment. Can’t you understand that, while people always doubted me when there were hurricanes, earthquakes, or outbreaks of disease, it took your commentary on such events to make people not merely doubt but hate me. Atheism of a practical sort had always been around, but did you never wonder why atheism flourished so much precisely at the same time as you were around?”
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