No Love in Heaven
"Earth’s the right place for love:
I don’t know where it's likely to go better." R. Frost
Proposition: there is no love in Heaven.
I don't know what Heaven is really like or even whether it exists. But as popularly conceived, as conceived in most religious traditions that entertain the notion, Heaven is a place without pain or struggle. A place of perfect peace and happiness. In such a place there can be no empathy, no compassion, and therefore no love. Love is not something that is proven by adversity. It is created by it. If I cannot sacrifice self, if I cannot get out of myself for you, I cannot love.
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