Blue Like Jazz (2003, Nelson Books)
“The Christian belief in heaven originated after the death of Jesus with the idea that he had been taken up into heaven or exalted to the right hand of God.”
Source: Jesus Before Christianity: The Gospel of Liberation (1976), p. 46.
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Journal of Discourses 22:44 (February 6, 1881)

“The kingdom of heaven after death, nirvana and absolute nothingness are one and the same.”
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This attitude is worse than criminal. This kind of faith is faulty in essence. Today the road of the Unification Church members is the road of setting this kind of Christianity straight.
Jesus Whom God Wanted To Find http://www.unification.net/1959/591018.html, 1959-10-18

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 57.