“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.”

—  Albert Nolan

Source: Jesus Before Christianity: The Gospel of Liberation (1976), p. 46.

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South African priest and activist 1934

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