I loved that best-seller about the boy who momentarily died and went to Heaven, but all I wanted to ask was, "Did He say anything about me?" I counsel couples who are about to marry, "If it feels good, stop".
It was recorded that at age five he ventured to ask what lay beyond Heaven, and by eight he understood the significance of the Classic of Filiality (Xiaojing).
Beatrice, a beautiful woman whom Dante had loved in his youth — and who, if she is the person scholars think she was, died when she and he were both twenty-five — came down from Heaven to Hell and asked Virgil (who is in Hell because he was a pagan) to bring Dante to her.
"Is that "Stairway to Heaven?" I ask, eyelids still half-mast.
That is the view of Youssef Sidhom, editor of the Coptic Watani newspaper: "We end up presenting three to heaven, and we ask heaven to choose one of them," he explained.
In addition to McGraw himself, Mr. Boraine plays an insipid celebrity interviewer ("Is Sic sick?"), a less than sincere doctor (the growth near McGraw's duodenum is "of course totally inoperable," the doctor is "sorry, so sorry, so sorry," and the bill comes to $900,000) and the rock star Bono, who makes a near-death appearance when McGraw asks Heaven to send someone to help him.
"Lord, do you want us to call down fire from heaven to consume them?" James and John asked Jesus.
In heaven they ask you to explain all the times you missed an opportunity to find joy.
But what about those of us right next to heaven?" Skorik asked.
In one cartoon, two terrorists are seen ascending to heaven and asking: "Where are the 70 virgins?" In the background, the murdered staff at Charlie Hebdo are enjoying an orgy.
