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Hell ... It Will Only Feel Like An Eternity

I'm leading a film and theology series with the youth at my church this summer and today we reviewed the movie What Dreams May Come and discussed issues of Heaven and Hell. If you haven't seen the movie, don't, it's terrible, but it does raise several topics of discussion, i.e., suicide, heaven, hell.  The discussion reminded me of this great episode from Seinfeld, truly one of my favorites.

A Godless Dream Deferred

A Brooklyn middle school has asked its students to consider whether God should be treated as poetry, considered to be neither true nor false (read the article).  I wonder if they mean that?  Do the educators at this school consider this poem by Langston Hughes to lack truth:


What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore--
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over--
like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load. Or does it explode?

I doubt that the reality of this poem escapes the teachers in Brooklyn and I'm certain they teach their students everyday the injustice of a dream deferred simply because of the color of a man's skin.  But what is the educational motivation is in asking the students to consider whether or not "God" might be an idea rather than a reality.  Is it to inspire critical thinking - an ability to defend one's beliefs?  Or is it that the teachers at this school believe that a dream of world without has been deferred too long?