Most people of faith agree that life goes on in some form after what we call death. For many Christians, belief in the immortality of the soul and a literal resurrection are central tenets. But while the Bible mentions “heaven” frequently, it isn’t much help with the specifics.

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I try to make it a habit not to pick fights with people of other faiths, and it’s not because I don’t disagree with them. Even when I read the Pope’s reassertion last week of the universal primacy of the Roman Catholic Church, including the statement that other churches are not actually churches “in the proper sense” but communities, I saw no compelling reason to change my habit.

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