There are probably a billion people in the world who genuinely believe that gays will burn in hell for ever!!!
For what sin exactly??
If they were logical about how blasphemy is defined, “the unforgivable sin”, they’d realize the the odds of committing it once over infinite time is 100%.
Maybe instead of hating gays, they should ponder that!
Don’t play at all… live the most miserable life you can possibly live, and then one day… like all old people do, you’d wish you had played more… play = progress, mope = stagnation.
Back in ancient times, even up to the Middle Ages, there were groups of people called “sin eaters” who work out the karma of the deceased … very hard job by the way. Even though it is not pop culture, people still practice it to this day
It was in reply to this:
“I could fill a stadium full of microfiche about all the things you don’t know about this. Doesn’t change these truths whatsoever.” not that… you hadn’t even said that yet.
Why are you telling me about myself, on matters I never argued against?
So nobody understands spirit but you? Or is your point that only I don’t? You presume a lot without having asked anything…
A sheltered life does not mean an unworldly one, but I do like to channel my inner child, yes… my babbling infant, no! Sin eaters are not my concern… why are you making them so?
Ah… because of this:
“A sin-eater is a person who consumes a ritual meal in order to magically take on the sins of a person or household. The food was believed to absorb the sins of a recently deceased person, thus absolving the soul of the person. Sin-eaters, as a consequence, carried the sins of all people whose sins they had eaten. Cultural anthropologists and folklorists classify sin-eating as a form of apotropaic ritual and religious magic.”
Is this why all talk of a favourite meal was off the agenda? I would say that the modern form of this is ‘Nine Night’ and other such decease-visiting gatherings, but the sins are shared by the many not the few, as they are large gatherings of family and friends, full of wine discourse and song… celebrating the deceased’s virtues and discussing their sins.
The Books of
the Dead do reflect some cross images, and this manyform expression give credence of underlying archetype.
The only major diversion that is not in time here is an Eternal damnation.
Even the concept of eternity throws an unfocused and destabilizing melange into it. I would substitute timelessness for eternity, for eternity suggests an absolute measure, and they are at odds.