I thought a hater or two might come out of the woodwork when I said that.
You people are as arrogant and humorless as the worst fundamentalists.
Jerry was neither arrogant nor humorless. You cannot persuade me that he would have the slightest objection to my innocent image of him in an afterlife.
I'm ok with your colorful counterfactual about his current disposition, the same way I'm fine reading a Sutra talking about reincarnation, or a Nasrudin story invoking Allah. I don't think belief should have anything to do with cultural acceptability; and I think the people objecting to your comment are rude--but I also think "you people" is a rude way to address them.
You people are as arrogant and humorless as the worst fundamentalists.
Jerry was neither arrogant nor humorless. You cannot persuade me that he would have the slightest objection to my innocent image of him in an afterlife.