Is Heaven Segregated? Last night I was remembering a famous book “The Razors Edge” by Somerset Maugham. In the book a friend had considered his options after death as he was getting older. He was wealthy and joined the Catholic Church. He came to the conclusion that, in heaven there are different classes of people and the wealthy, just as here on Earth, inhabited an upper rung. I wondered this must surely be others thoughts as well. How would fundamentalist Christians like to cohabit an area with other fundamentalist sects or even other religious or even non-religious people? Found an interesting poem. [poemhunter.com] There is a new movie on this subject [christianheadlines.com]
and an early Catholic thought: [eyeofthetiber.com] Even Yahoo has a take [answers.yahoo.com]
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Maybe the question "Is the an upper class of inhabitants in Heaven?" indicates only the tolerant get into Heaven in the first place. No fundamentalists! 
dare2dream
Level 7
Feb 15, 2020
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Problem is, no one gets to heaven, rich, poor, evil, good, no one.
OH FFS.
Speculating about the social pecking order of an afterlife that doesn't exist is like wondering if the succubus that enters your room at night will have pubes that match her head hair.
LenHazell53
Level 9
Feb 14, 2020
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ROFLMAO!! I love succubus jokes! The word alone is great!! 
And by the way... GET OFF MY LAWN 
@silverotter11 Haha.. Reminds me of that episode of South Park.. 
This is like the question, "How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?"
@Captain_Feelgood That episode was SOOOOOOOOO funny!!
OFFS!! I really never gave it much thought but now that you mention it I am in no way surprised they would continue their need to be special right into the whatever happens after death mode of their thinking.
silverotter11
Level 9
Feb 14, 2020
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We shouldn't be surprised as this is what happens and will continue to happen here on Earth. Again, there is no heaven, only levels of hell. I'm so glad we are 'secular infidels' (just read that expression today).
@JackPedigo I like it!! secular infidels; has a better ring than heathens.
I’ve read a couple of things about the stratification of heaven but I have always considered that they are an adaptation of Dante’s Divine Comedy.
Geoffrey51
Level 8
Feb 14, 2020
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Razor's edge was the book that prompted me to first read the upanishads back in the 80's. I still have a crappy old copy of it lying around here somewhere from a public library in Boston. No theft - I bought it online.
JeffMesser
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Feb 14, 2020
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Libraries do get rid of books especially if they haven't been checked out much. Ours does that every year and it's a great way to get funding.
After I left the military I moved to Europe and found a job in a military education center as a MOS (military occupational specialist) librarian. Mostly Field and Technical manuals. One day I received a note from a big civilian library saying they had to purge some books and would my library (they evidentially didn't understand what MOS meant) want some books (there was a long list). I looked through the list and picked out some for me. A box of books arrived shortly afterward.
@JackPedigo yeah thats basically how I got it as well. that book was popular like in the early 40's and the movie with Tyrone Power was the late 40's ... and I don't think it had been checked out since. Especially sad since it's a book that everyone should read. It was my first experience at bashing materialism.
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