Unlike our fundamentalist brothers, who regard life on Earth as a mere stop on the road to paradise, an unpleasant but necessary stop at that, a place to do one's duty and be gone, we are free to embrace life in all its wonder and beauty. Unlike our fundamentalist brothers, we know that such magnificence must be cared for. We will never allow our natural resources to be used up or abused under the theory that the world is shortly coming to an end, anyway. We suffer from no such illusion. I would not trade my lot with any Christian alive or dead.
Death is like leaving a banquet.
You don't want to leave too early as the food and company are at their best. After a while, the food becomes bland and the pleasures blurred, and your stomach hurts. Unlike many Christians, we do not view ourselves as unworthy worms hanging over a great fire by a slender thread. That some fundamentalists do grow up healthy in mind and body is more an attribute to human robustness and independence than anything else. God cannot be both a mass torturer par excellence and a loving father at the same time, period.