Heaven

[asterroc]

I don't know which bothers me more: religious people saying that so-and-so will never get to Heaven because they aren't of their religion, or smug assurance that the soul of so-and-so will or did see the light and turn from their religion to the proper one and thus *will* be in Heaven. Along with the latter is the Mormon practice of baptism for the dead. In this practice, the living vicariously baptize the dead, regardless of the religion and wishes of the dead person while living, and then supposedly God then gives the dead soul the opportunity to accept the Gospel of Christ. *Grr*

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[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Oh my. Do they really say it that way? I can just picture my own reply. "Of *course* I'm not sure - I'm an atheist! And even if I were a Christian, I thought only God can know if you're in a state of Grace, isn't that what Joan of Arc said when she was brought before the Inquisition? Of course, they eventually killed her for wearing pants, which is probably one of the lesser of my sins. Have you read the Principia lately? It's a really Good Book, containing the Word of Newton..."

Reminds me a bit of an episode of Springer I saw once. It was about a woman who met her boyfriend when she was a telemarketer and he was a person she called, and she wanted to tell him and our audience at home that she was cheating on him with another man she met through telemarketing. There's reasons I don't watch TV.