Johnny Kendy stopped by his grandma's house after taking a cake his mother baked to Ray Cathcart. Ray's wife died last week.
"Mr. Cathcart was real sad. He said he and his wife had been married almost 60 years, and now he will never see her again, because he's saved and she wasn't. He'll go to heaven when he dies, but she'll have to go to hell, and he'll never see her again."
"Johnny," said Claire Nathan, "heaven is where you're always happy, right?"
"Yeah, I guess so, if you like harping and stuff."
"I'm not sure about the harping, but wherever there is love, there can be no hell. If you love somebody, and they go to hell, even if you're in heaven, you can't be happy. There won't be haters in heaven, only lovers. So if anybody is in hell, there can't be anybody in heaven."
The professional theologian, The Rev. Dr. Randall Nathan, says this is another of Claire's Home Ec Theologies. He's always known she is the best theologian in the family.
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