happy hunting grounds or boring hunting grounds?

I have consistently, and perhaps repetitively, said over and over that I believe all religions say something to the effect of love your enemy.   And I never meant to indicate that people in ancient times didn't know that they had enemies.  What I said was that they were likely unaware of people with other religions, not that they were unaware of their enemies.  Like everybody they surely had lots of enemies, but those enemies were most likely of their own religion.  I think you are operating on the theory that somebody of a different religion is necessarily your enemy, and I am saying it ain't necessarily so.

I think my main point is still that most religions have very nice words and if one did nothing but look at the words one would think their followers would be very nice people, but in fact most people just attach their religion to whatever their agenda happens to be at the time, which is generally something not very nice , and run with that.  Therefore paying a lot of attention to the official words of a religion can be misleading in judging the people.

I know about seiches.  We have indeed had some in Chicago, at the southern edge of Lake Michigan, that have dragged some folk off to their doom.  They happen from time to time, due to the weather phenomena that you cite, but probably only once every twenty-five years do we have one severe enough to kill anybody.

But this is a far cry from the parting of the Red Sea, and remember one of the main components of that myth is Pharaoh's army being swallowed up right afterwards, which certainly would not have happened if the Hebrews had availed themselves of some land bridge.

And then you cite something that happened on the Jordan River, which, may I remind you, is not the Red Sea.  If this was some kind of natural phenomenon, as you seem to be implying, why is it that the only time this ever happened was when the Hebrews, pursued by the Egyptian army, wanted to cross it?

And add to that that there is no historical evidence of Jews being pursued by Egyptians across the Red Sea, and we are talking about some strange weather conditions that almost never happen, being used to buttress a story that almost surely never happened and I am wondering why we are talking about this.

Especially when the more interesting question of what would you like your immortality to look like, and if it was nothing other than Bambi after Bambi walking up to the blind to get blasted by Betsy or Sarah, would it be an eternity worth living in, worth avoiding sin just to get into.