one more visit to earth before he must go to heaven forever.25 The implicit message is that heaven is an ethereal, cold, bloodless, and boring place, whereas earth with its carnal pleasures is where the real joy and vitality are to be found. To be deprived of earth and consigned to heaven thus appears to be more like an eternal death sentence than an eternal reward. What we have seen from the sketch above is that it is a profound mistake to set heaven over against earth in that way. To aspire to