Heaven-x-Hell

Everything was black. That is the first thing that I remember. I had no idea how I had arrived here. Or even if I had arrived here at all. I didn't know if I was born – or even made – here. I didn't know if I had died and ended up here. All I knew was that I was here, and that it was black. But I wasn't the only thing that was here in this darkness. All around me were the thorns. Bushes of them; covering up much of what I could see. There were thorns upon thorns, thorns blanketing the ground, thorns reaching towards the sky – if the blackness could even have a sky – as if they were trying to escape from this bleak place.

A Christian perspective on death. Let’s begin by stating the obvious: someday we will all die. It’s never an easy thing to hear. We generally prefer not to think about death usually because we’re too busy living. But everyday we inch a little closer to the grave, our final resting-place, whether we like it or not. The Bible is very blunt on the question of death and decay. Job 20:7 tells us that people will ‘perish forever like their own dung; those who have seen them will say, “where are they?’ A famous image for death is the surfing out of a candle’s flame: once it burned brightly, the next minute&

As the wind shifts Daylight dies upon the water Mournful sorrow drifts Racing beneath its slaughter Gently now we darkly weep With eyes that bleed but sand Driven like the blackened sheep Harrowing across barren land Bleating fright in woeful tones To stagger beneath this sight Alas, alas, we are but bones In the birth of endless night Tis too late to staunch the tide Too long we’ve denied its blight All chances impatiently set aside Blinded with self-centered sight Oh woe a path of wicked pride Has exposed our dreadful ways Our decay we can no longer hide Tis twilight in the end of days

I was there when the first man killed another in cold blood millions of years ago. I was there behind every murderer ever since that day. I am the one behind many wars and I have been the face behind many of them, from Hitler, to Nero, to Ahab, Herod, Custer, Hirohito, Caligula, and many others. I was the one who had Gein kill women due to his mother telling him that women are evil. I was the one who caused the genocides of Jews, Native Americans, Tutsis, Rohingya, the Armenians and even Klansmen who kill African-Americans. I was the one who had both Matthew Shepard and Harvey Milk murdered. I was behind school shootings such as Sandy Hook,