“Heaven is totally overrated. It seems boring. Clouds, listening to people play the harp. It should be somewhere you can’t wait to go, like a luxury hotel. Maybe blue skies and soft music were enough to keep people in line in the 17th century, but Heaven has to step it up a bit. They’re basically getting by because they only have to be better than Hell.”
–Joel Stein, “The Way I See It #230.” Stein is a columnist for the Los Angeles Times. I read this quote on a Starbucks cup that contained a delicious cafe Americano.
Randy Alcorn recounts some interesting dialogue he’s had with Stein about this. Worth a read:
http://randyalcorn.blogspot.com/2007/12/joel-stein-starbucks-and-heaven.html