Even if there weren't so many terribly misbehaving children who haven't been taught to shut up for one hour, I wouldn't have been able to hear the preacher's low-volume microphone anyway. He was talking, I could tell that much. But what he was saying was anyone's guess. If there had been a clock on the wall, I could have heard it ticking better than anything that was supposed to be relevant.
If you haven't read the first part of the assignment here's the link. You might understand this better if you read Part one before Part Two. http://www.progressiveu.org/093253-dantes-inferno-english-assignment-par...
So in my College Prep English class my teacher is having us read Dante's "Inferno". Here's a little bit of background for those of you who don't have a clue....Dante wrote three poems "Inferno" (Hell), "Purgatorio" (Purgatory) and "Paradiso" (Heaven). Together these three poems make up the "Divine Comedy". Basically it is about Dante being guided thru Hell and Purgatory by Virgil.
Praying in a Vacuum: Oil for Sinning
If we are a “Christian nation”
Lifeblood in Persian Gulf soil
Should not the population
Be warned that Heaven runs on oil?
From the ground gargles up an answer
Of liquid gold and mud
It pumps and it courses
And through pipelines it does trudge
The steady marching rhythm
Of our misguided grudge
We’ve come uninvited
I've heard this question thrown around from time to time and it always makes me laugh. I can't figure out if some people can't bear to think of a realm without sex or if they think that sex is the best thing ever and must be in heaven. When I think of heaven, sex does not even enter into the question.
The root of the matter is whether or not good people are denied entrance to heaven. It is hard for some Christians to believe that such a great person as Gandhi wouldn't be admitted. By extension, it's also difficult for some Christians to conceive of the concept that whole populations of people who don't accept basic principles of Christianity won't enjoy eternity.
After my last post, I feel the need to state my beef. I don't care about whether or not Mormons wear magic underwear or even if it should be considered Christianity at all. I've studied it a bit in college and it seems just as reasonable as any other religion. Religions can get pretty crazy. Who cares if they don't eat chocolate?
I was reading a lot of blogs saying how terrible God must be for sending people who don't believe in Him, unbaptized babies to Hell, and how He makes it impossible for anyone to go to Heaven unless they're Catholic. I almost believed it until I remembered something very important.
