[shibumi]

"Do you think McKellen might have a really bad eternity?"

If his angst is so great that he has to resort to taking out his rage by ripping up books, then it sounds like he's not too happy in this life, either. Heaven is a free gift - people make their own hell. He has done some great acting, as have Alec Baldwin and a lot of other looney lefties. This is when we have to exercise the theatrical "willing suspension of disbelief".

[Salamander]

I think I'll spend the evening blacking out all the parts I have problems living up to.
Surely God won't hold me responsible for things I don't have in my bible.....right?.....;]

"willing suspension of disbelief"

Or willful disbelief because he'd have to stop, otherwise.....:D