Because it's just funny to think about

In thinking about the quandary posed in the previous post, a flood of follow up questions sprang to mind and I'd be remiss if I didn't share...

1. Christians often say entrants to heaven will regain lost body parts and mental faculties, restoring them to their prime. But what about people who were mentally challenged from the outset? Do they go to heaven and spend eternity retarded? Talk about a gift with strings attached. "Hey Billy! Good news, you're going to spend forever with God in heaven!" "Apples!"

2. Continuing in the same vein, what about miscarried and aborted fetuses? How would you like to spend eternity as a faulty blastocyst? Bummer. Also, assuming the mother survived the ordeal, where does a heavenly zygote reside? In a new mom or just in a box somewhere? The same problem crops up when the baby jets off to the great blue happyland but Mom goes to hell. The paperwork must be a nightmare.

3. Giving Christians the benefit of the doubt, let's say amputees and the elderly arrive in heaven all patched up. What about those people whose disabilities played a key role in their personalities and development? Will Stephen Hawking walk and talk?

4. How about all the disabled kids who persevere and credit their ailment with revitalizing their lives (e.g., "It was the best thing that could ever happen to me")? I'm not saying most of these folks would prefer to stay disabled, but doesn't it kinda diminish their achievements if, upon entry to heaven, Jesus just zaps them back to health? It would be a bit like Dorothy's situation when she's informed that she had the ability to go home all along. Why not save them the trouble of being handicapped in the first place? In addition, magically reordering someone's chromosomes and thus wiping out his Down's syndrome would fundamentally alter his status as an individual. If someone receives a brand new body and a fresh personality, they're hardly the same person (with the possible exception of Cher).

5. If the above hypothesis is wrong, wouldn't it be kinda weird to see retarded people in heaven? Is there a short bus making the rounds in heavenly Jerusalem? To the "special heaven" maybe?

6. This one is courtesy of Altoid_Junkie over at 1up.com: what if you become retarded later in life? Like what if you're a total jerkoff who tortures animals, but you get hit by a bus one day, the mean part of your brain gets damaged and you become all nice again? Do you spend eternity retarded? If retards do become smart in heaven, would you return to your asshole self?

7. Finally, what if you're in a wheelchair and the entrance to heaven looks like this: