[ Where Dean sees force, Raphael sees peace - most are never aware they are dead, simply moving from one happy scene to the next, happy and without trouble. He can't at all understand Dean's issue with Heaven. ]

We're called The Host, Dean. Surely you aren't so reliant on others to research for you that you haven't heard the phrase. Soldiers have commanders Dean, who make the plans and decide the details. Besides, at least to my present date ever angel you've met has made choices on their own, most just haven't chosen what you believe they should.

[ Michael, Lucifer, himself, Gabriel, Zachariah, Joshua, Anna, Castiel, Uriel - they had all chosen their paths. And there had been others. It's wasn't 'free will' as most humans thought it, but they weren't machines, not even of them. ]