The evidence included membership in an alternative political group, the China Social Democracy Party, and a succession of essays that took issue with the government, led by an online criticism titled "Human Beings' Heaven Is Human Dignity".
THE Conata Basin, in South Dakota's badlands, is parched, scrubby and desolate hell for humans, but heaven for black-footed ferrets.
Muhammad did teach that Allah had predestined some humans to heaven and others to hell, but the whole logic of his message is that submission to Allah is the means to salvation, for Allah is merciful.
In the 15th century, the notable humanist Lorenzo Valla following brief hints by Petrarch wrote, in the dialogue De voluptate (1431; On Pleasure), the first modern defense of the ethics of Epicurus, maintaining that the true good is pleasure and not virtue but concluding that the supreme pleasure is that which awaits humans in heaven, which even the Bible calls paradisum voluptatis.
From the mantric articulation of the Dharma emerge ten realms and their respective languages (of hell dwellers, hungry ghosts, animals, asuras, humans, celestial heaven dwellers, śrâvakas, pratyeka-buddhas, bodhisattvas, and buddhas).
The priesthood then exercised supreme control over the fortunes of the gods and human beings, of heaven and earth, and of the state, though not infrequently priests worked in the service of princes.
The Cathars' theological solution made the body and all the material world the Devil's dominion, while leaving the human spirit and Heaven in God's hands.
(He does sometimes use the heaven/earth pair as a metaphor for human hierarchies, with heaven as ruler and earth as subject. But this does not imply that the value or legitimacy of human hierarchies derives from heaven's superiority over earth).
The mighty acts of God, which break into the human condition, bring heaven on earth.
God didn't need more angels in Heaven; human beings and angels are unrelated, despite our pop culture narratives.
