Thanks to Corky for today's sermon topic! We should all take at least a moment of our time each week and consider our mortality.

Memento Mori!

But.

Discussions of heaven and hell always make me think of fan fiction when fans ask questions about fantasy worlds that were made up by authors of fantasy or sci fi. And authors have complex answers and reasons why things happen or don't happen in the fantasy world they made up.

These authors can create entire galaxies filled with planets nations and cities filled with people with complex life stories.

Heaven and Hell are obviously made up stories. Stories that try to explain things that we have no words for and no evidence of whatsoever but are part of the overall religious dogma of most religions. Because Before Life and After Death is the great known unknown and people still try to talk about it anyway.

Because their particular mythology creates an anxiety for something that no one on earth really has any clue about.

I love hearing the variety of answers one gets if you ask what will happen after you die.