'ΦΙΛΗΜΩΝ answered: “These dead rejected the God of love, of the good and the beautiful; they had to reject him and so they rejected unity and community in love, in the good and the beautiful. And thus they killed one another and dissolved the community of men. Should I teach them the God who united them in love and whom they rejected? Therefore I teach them the God who dissolves unity, who blasts everything human, who powerfully creates and mightily destroys. Those whom love does not unite, fear compels.' Carl G Jung (The Red Book)
Any belief in a God is necessarily inseparable from a future state the person imagines for themself. This is why the idea of a "God" is always paired with the word "good," regardless of whether the plan for the future includes suffering. A future state in heaven, since heaven cannot be defined in any concrete terms, is therefore always detached from any logic or rational experience or even expectation. Instead, all "beliefs" in the Christian God are based solely on a hope in a future state of being that is purely emotional, not rational. And it is emotional because the "believer" always imagines themselves in a state in the future in which they are free of the worries they suffer from in this life. Among those worries, the foremost is the fear of hell and punishment and sin and feeling rejected by God. Heaven, as such, is a wishful place in which all of the suffering of this life, whether from aging and dying to suffering endlessly in the nex...