I believe John Lennon was wrong. I believe that heaven and hell are real places and that each of us will spend eternity in one place or the other. Interestingly, recent polls show that I'm not alone in that belief. A 1991 survey commissioned by U.S. News and World Report shows that 78% of Americans believe in heaven and 60% believe in hell. The survey also revealed that 81% of the women surveyed thought they had an excellent chance of going to heaven while only 3% thought they had a similar chance of going to hell. "And in heaven as on earth, women will outnumber men: 73 percent of the guys surveyed say they expect to go to heaven, while 5 percent say they expect to wind up in hell.
