I realise personal testimony isn't exactly the most compelling of evidence, but I just so happen to know a guy who is a particularly devout xtian and who has not only been inside for tax fraud and money laundering but is also not averse to cheating on his wife. His justification for doing this? He can go to confession any time he likes and get forgiven. That somehow makes him more moral than the people he treads on in life.
"But if I go to hell, well then I hope I burn well,
I'll spend my days with J.F.K., Marvin Gaye, Martha Raye, and Lawrence Welk,
And Kurt Cobain, Kojak, Mark Twain and Jimi Hendrix' poltergeist,
And Webster, yeah Emmanuel Lewis, cause he's the anti-christ."
(October 6, 2014 at 8:33 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: You know what? I'll take it. At least Hell has Jimi Hendrix, Carl Sagan, and Bert Russell.
"But if I go to hell, well then I hope I burn well,
I'll spend my days with J.F.K., Marvin Gaye, Martha Raye, and Lawrence Welk,
And Kurt Cobain, Kojak, Mark Twain and Jimi Hendrix' poltergeist,
And Webster, yeah Emmanuel Lewis, cause he's the anti-christ."
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
