This picture is from a Jehovah's Witness publication. This isn't a depiction of heaven, but rather a future paradise earth. And the picture depicts various people being redirected back to life.

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It depends. Some sects believe in the concept of "particular judgment" -- you are judged and go to heaven (or hell, or Detroit) immediately upon death (I think Catholics believe this). Other sects believe in the doctrine of "last judgement" where all the dead are put on hold until the end of the world, and then judged en mass. There is, as usual, conflicting Biblical passages on this point.

Enjoy your mythology. I prefer my imaginary afterlife to be interpreted literally.

There's probably multiple. Or at least there's multiple interpretations of it.

I remember reading that bit.

But even if that's the actual version, this painting just assumes you down near the people you're wanting to see. Even though those groups would likely have mutually exclusive members? Does everybody get split into though copies to be everywhere they need to be at once?

There's so much unanswered lore specifics. Revelation was the first part I stopped believing in.

It just seems like whoever wrote it (I think it's supposed to be John, but those people still think Moses was a real person, so who knows) had dropped too much acid like 10 hours before and was having a really bad comedown phase. None of it is coherent at all.

And the fact that Trump is by far the closest any human has come to being the actual antichrist while they all just follow blindly is the most depressing humor around.

Any other tiny sleight they will call out preemptively (thinking of late 90s/early 00s satanic panic stuff, like Pokémon is evil because it's made by a company called Wizards of the Coast, and they also make a game called Magic!), but actual Hitler Jr? Nah, they love him to death.

I love this reflection. It kind of shines a spotlight on the fallibility of mainstream religions under rational thought. Could there be something after death? Sure. But the stories people are peddled arent based on any truth, it's just telling people what they want to hear to get them to join the club.

There's a people heaven, and a dog heaven, and a monkey heaven, a bird heaven, etc. Like, what? There's an estimated 8.7 million species on earth, you think there's a heaven for each of them? When evolution spins off something new or species cross breed, like a liger from a lion and tiger, does a new heaven just pop into existence?

Mainstream depictions of heaven are bunk.

If you believe evolution is real, you'll obviously never go to heaven, so you'll never find out.

yeah how the fuck does relativity work in heaven? I agree with you, if I died as a kid that would stuck for all of eternity to just be a kid.

lots of diversity: check no interracial couples or evidence of them despite lots of diversity: check heaven is a physical place where you keep your body and there's flowers and columns and shit: check 80s romance novel cover horny painting art style: check

at least it's not ai slop

Depends what you believe but many think of the concept of heaven not as a place where you see your dead family and pets, but more of a state of being including oneness with God. Sort of like nirvana. Or the Nexus if you're a Star Trek fan.

Nietze was wrong, God is undead.

I received a flyer for "Let's celebrate Jesus' death" this April. Terrible choice of words

When you reunite with your kids in heaven because their mom went crazy and drive the minivan into a lake with the kids inside.

It’s always funny when they depict adults being reunited with their children. How come those adults aren’t depicted as children being reunited with THEIR parents.. and recursively so on and so on.

Or Palestinian ones on a Tuesday

So the entirety of the force ghost thing didnt happen, yeah?