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14 years ago
*wonderful*
Blast, that was exactly the word I was going to use in my response!
Of course not! Even "caring" is pretty generous of them.
Read your Dante. Medieval theology had a problem with the "virtuous pagans", the classical Greeks who were clearly worthy, but pre- Christian and thus unsaveable. They were condemned, by dogma, to an eternity in Hell. So as Dante describes, Hell was envisioned as having suburbs. Still in Hell. Still Damned for Eternity, but light on the actual pitchforking business.
In message , John Stumbles writes
That deserves spreading around a bit
Arghh - 'envisioned' - what an horrible Americanism :-)
Tiny tweezers?
Search for "Phil, Prince of Heck" and his Spoon.
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember John Stumbles saying something like:
Hah. Bart must be fairly sure he's not going to be saved.
Or pets?
A bit like this then ?
Can't be worse than being stuck in 'heaven' with millions of sanctimonious merkins! T'would be a god-forsaken place.
Or, as I said to the man on a soap box who called me a sinner
"I can't possibly be, by definition"
Not necessarily. He may not intend to honour the contract - Christians have been known to lie ;-).
... or if that's a bit heavy, Niven & Pournelle's "Inferno" will give you the idea.
Andy
That's in Dante too - 14th circle of Hell, where bad PC journalists are forced to read Pournelle novels for eternity.
Like "ESCAPE FROM HELL, by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, is now shipping. This is the story of a science fiction writer who finds himself in Dante's Inferno. It might be subtitled Vatican II meets Dante. A number of readers have reported favorably..."
:-)
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