Wouldn't be my topic if it wouldn't have at least one veeeeeery long joke in it.
A ruthless business man, let's call him John, has died and being an atheist to his surprise he finds himself in an afterlife.
He gives it some quick thought, been a bad guy, certainly he can't get to heaven, so he will probably be on the other side.
He finds himself in front of a huge gate that in this moment starts opening for him.
To his surprise behind the gate there's no fire and stuff, but a green grass field, a little forest on the side, a narrow river meanders through the trees, sunshine from a clear blue sky, perfect 28°C, a few picturesque mountains in the distance with a snowy white top, a light wind drives the lovely smell from the wild flowers in the grass into his nose, just perfect.
Then he notices a wooden booth between the trees that looks like a bar with a guy inside mixing drinks.
John walks over and asks the guy behind the bar what is going on, where he is and what this place is.
The guy behind the bar answers: "You're dead, this is hell and I'm the devil, would you like a drink?"
John is puzzled because he expected hell to be a whole lot different, but the devil says: "Nope, this is hell and it always looks like this, I know people on earth are spreading rumors about how horrible it is here, but that's just not true. Why don't you go and find yourself a lovely girl and go with her under the trees at the river? Shall I bring drinks out there?"
John isn't convinced, he asks if he can take a look around and the devil tells him he's free to do whatever he likes.
John starts walking towards the mountains in the distance, over all green grass fields in between small forests, lovely little rivers and under the trees he even sees a few couples having a romantic picnic or something.
Still not convinced John keeps walking and after several hours he reaches a huge building with massive walls, no windows and a very big iron gate with a dozen massive locks on the front.
John walks closer, sees in the gate a little spy hole and takes a look inside where he sees just what he expected hell would look like, fire and lava everywhere, human bodies burning and tortured, loud screaming, etc.
John figures, all the green fields must be a deception, to make him feel comfortable so that the shock will be even greater when the devil throws him in there, he rushes back to the entrance, finds the devil in the booth and confronts him.
"I have seen the truth, you can't lie to me anymore."
But the devil seems not to understand what John is talking about.
"I've seen that big building over there in the distance with all the tortured souls in it and that's where you will throw me in as well, I knew you were lying, one just can't trust the devil."
The devil laughs and replies: "No worries, you won't be thrown in there, that building is just for the Christians, they want it like that."
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