Consider the death of a child. Some say God will not allow a child to go to hell, so ultimately there is no genuine tragedy when a child suffers or dies because, like most Hollywood movies, you can count on an ultimate happy ending (the child lives happily ever-after in heaven). If those who mourn the child eventually go to heaven, then they will be happily reunited with the child, and so in the long run there is no tragedy for them either. So what about an adult who goes to hell? Some folks say this is no tragedy because only those who rebel against God end up in hell, and they deserve their fate. There are also New Age spiritual ideas that view the world in terms of ultimate perfection, so for them – just like the Christians – there does not seem to be any genuine tragedy. The world is ultimately a sort of game in which you suffer in the process of growth, but eventually everything works out for the best. When everything works out for the best, it is not a tragedy, but a comedy.
2006-06-27
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