Now, granted, part of the absurdity of such arguments is the mundane psychologization of heaven and hell they involve, and the somewhat burlesque effects produced whenever one attempts to imagine the unimaginable in terms of the familiar. Whatever the world to come may be, it surely will not involve the souls of the saved gathering like eager tourists along steel railings above the Grand Canyon, gazing down into hell and waving impishly to their aunts and cousins among the flames.
