It may seem strange that so many people nowadays get angry at talk about resurrected eternal life in Heaven.
Why should Heaven talk make them so angry - even if they believe that resurrection is impossible and Heaven is untrue?
But in truth it is no so difficult to understand...
In fact I understand this anger from personal experience because I was myself one of those angry people, for most of my life.
As a kid, a teen, and a young adult - I would be extremely annoyed by people promising eternal life after death.
It wasn't just that I did not believe in the possibility of resurrection after death, but that it struck me as a loathsomely manipulative bribe.
The story of resurrection and Heaven struck me as a cynical inducement offered to miserable and desperate human souls; only in return for voluntary slavish subordination to a comprehensive system of life-control.
So; it wasn't really the resurrection and Heaven, which I simply regarded as untrue; but the way it was linked to a demand for unconditional obedience.
This is one strong reason why I regard it as Absolutely Essential that Christianity dissociate resurrection and Heaven - which is the primary promise of Jesus Christ - from any solid causal linkage with any church.
We need to be clear and state simply that the path to resurrection is something between our-selves and the living Jesus Christ; whom each of us can know personally.
Only then can people begin to grasp what is being offered, and whether this is something that we personally desire to happen to us...
And then (but only then) How this can happen.
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