No pets in Paradise Mankind has come up with a bewildering range of 'Heavens', finds John Adamson

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: April 7, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

Heaven: A Traveller's Guide to the Undiscovered Country

by Peter Stanford

HarperCollins, pounds 17.99, 374 pp

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ORGANISED RELIGION in Britain may be in terminal decline, but there is at least one piece of the Christian debris that most are reluctant to give up: the belief in heaven. Even in our highly secularised world, just over 70 per cent of the population still believes in some form of beatific afterlife.

For us mortals, daunted by the prospect of permanent extinction, the promise (on certain conditions) of a future life of eternal felicity is ...

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