Heaven Can Wait

            I am really confused!  Heaven is the reason why!  You see, since 9-11 I have learned many things about Muslims that I never knew before.  In fact, I never even knew there were so many Muslims or had not an inkling of their belief system, the name of their God or the disdain they had for Christians.  So now here it is years later, the United States has been warring in Afghanistan, Iraq and soon, it seems,  North Korea and Iran, the latter  nearly 100% Muslim faithful. This is where the confusion starts.  You see, every day I hear or read about some extremist Muslim  blowing himself up, along with hundreds of innocent others in the name of Allah, or in the name of their religion. The belief is that they are not only given permission to do that by the God they worship, but they will be heroes once they get to heaven.  I don’t know about you, but if my God gave me permission to blow innocent people up, I would be shopping around for a more merciful God. The whole concept of God being love somehow loses it validity with that kind of scenario. My question is, why would God create human-kind in the first place if He was most happiest when his followers killed others? God created men with free-will. He gives all of us a choice, but He doesn't kill us if we make a choice that other groups don't agree with.

            To make things even more confusing are the Christians that go to the middle East to fight the extremist Muslims and are told by family and commanders and religious leaders to lay down their life for God and Country and if by some unfortunate circumstance they get killed, don’t worry because they will go to heaven for being a good Christian soldier.  So, does God put the Muslims and Christians in the same rooms?  Does He worry that they will hate each other in heaven just as they did on earth?  Now do you understand my confusion?  If these groups cannot get along here on earth, what in the world makes one think that they can get along in heaven?  The  God I worship is love and justice and wisdom and power and something tells me that He will have to use all His qualities to keep the peace. My God would never allow either group into His chambers.  Of course, if you believe that neither group is going to heaven, you are probably closer to the truth than the 1.70 billion Muslims and the 2.15 billion Christians worldwide today. Besides.....who really wants to go to heaven anyway with all those killers running loose?

          John Malcolm Pouch 2017