HEAVEN REUNION
Today, says the sociologist Father Andrew Greeley, who has been surveying attitudes toward the hereafter for the last 16 years, Americans look forward to a heaven where they reunite with earthly relations. Meeting God, Greeley reports, takes a distinct back seat to the family reunion because they’ve never met God. They don’t know what God is like, so it would be hard to imagine what it would be like having God as a neighbor down the street. From “Heaven,” by Kenneth L. Woodward, Newsweek, March 27, 1989
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