I love Fred Clark

Fred Clark writes one of my favorite blogs, Slacktivist.  He is interested in the intersection between religion -- and faith -- and politics, economics, and everything else.  Although he has a number of religious posts, he also has many that deal simply with issues of social justice. A self-proclaimed "liberal evangelical," he attracts people of all religious persuasions (including agnostics and atheists) to his comment threads, which have some of the highest signal to noise ratios around (probably only exceeded by Making Light).

But, mainly, one of the reasons I love Fred is sentences like this:

But this triumphalism also doesn't seem to offer much of a reward even in the next life. It's not anticipating the glory of heaven, merely the bitter pleasure of seeing others get their comeuppance. It's a vision of heaven as a place of eternal schadenfreude.

When you're forced to describe heaven using untranslatable German words, then something has gone very wrong with your spiritual weltanschauung.