the big blog in the sky

Here is a snappy little piece about heaven in the American imagination. It surveys a number of recent books on the subject and concludes:

"What these visions of heaven have in common is their refusal of transcendence. They are unable to believe in anything more important than the individual human being or more significant than his or her earthly suffering. What makes them distinctly 21st-century heavens is the nature of that suffering...heaven means a chance to get our inner lives right at last...Instead of angelic choirs, it now seems, we will be greeted in heaven by the sound of a billion voices, all talking about themselves."

So heaven is a lot like blogging?