The religion most psychologically seductive, the one that resembles a contract between God and Man ...

In the Islamic heaven, those lucky enough to be admitted will have nice furniture, clothes and food, and wine that never gets them into trouble, served by young men and women in gardens with running streams - a bisexual consumerist hedonistic heaven with water features ...

Much more fun than sitting at the right hand of God singing His praises for all eternity, huh?

It is an altogether more sophisticated and psychologically seductive vision of heaven.

The Jews have no concept of heaven which seems to suggest that it should be good enough to be born a Jew, to live a Jew and to die a Jew. (Well, we can't all be members of the Chosen People, can we, particularly when the entry requirements are so high?)

If all the religions were made up as the prophets went along, which one do you think is best made up?


Suggested criteria for judging:

1. the best guidance for this life on earth likely to result in harmony between people if followed by most people
2. the most attractive description of heaven
3. the best drafted, most coherent, the most holistic
4. gives its followers (both those who govern and those who are governed) the most protection against the vicissitudes of life
5. the clearest guidance on human activities, ie war, divorce, commerce, slave-ownership, marriage
6. an explication of how civilisation works, ie law tempered by mercy with the exercise of reason