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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Zonker T. Chuqui)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: morals, and the low correlation with religion
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Date: Fri, 2-Nov-84 17:57:27 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  2 17:57:27 1984
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In article <485@umcp-cs.UUCP> mangoe@maryland.UUCP (Charley Wingate) writes:
>> = Chuq
>> The ONLY one who will be able to know if someone is going to heaven or
>> not is that person themselves. If you can look over your entire life and
>> honestly say to yourself and your God 'I am a good person' then you deserve
>> it.
>
>I'll go along with this, except I must add the qualification that a lot of
>people have blinded themselves to the evil they do, and therefore are no
>judge of "how well they're doing."

Agreed-- It is my feeling that the gatekeeper characterization that is
familiar to most pantheons (St. Peter, for example) is there specifically
to remove this blindness and show you what you really are; stripped of
rationalizations and blindspots and unable to hide from yourself you are
then asked whether or not you deserve salvation.


-- 
From the Department of Bistromatics:                   Chuq Von Rospach
{cbosgd,decwrl,fortune,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!chuqui  nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA

  I'd know those eyes from a million years away....