You know, in my culture, neither of those are considered permanent residences? Which is true for the barge as well, in theory.

Well. We don't have a 'heaven' as it's been described to me. The virtuous go to Samor to await their rebirth-- it's a place of rest and plenty, outside of the wheel of the seasons, where you must neither harvest or sow, but sleep and dream. Less ... bright and and clouds.

[He's had only the most fractured and out of context introduction to Christian iconography, it must be said.]