My friend Roger from our Soho Masses, sent me this, last year. I came across it while going through some old posts, tidying up my files, and thought it could be fun to re-post. As Roger noted in his message, read the detail carefully.
There were an awful lot of ”pewsitters” at his parish Mass last Sunday. Going through the full list, I wonder how many of you have no entry qualifications to hell at all?
Another friend, Dominic in Oz, complained that the is being lumped together with Jehovah’s Witnesses. (On what grounds, he did not say).
Wow. It doesn’t leave out many sinners at all, does it?
Except the real sinners, the really big sinners, whom Dante put in the lower circles of hell. It’s funny how selective these evangelical condemnations of sinners often are.
When I lived in New Orleans and saw similar folks trying to save the Mardi Gras revelers from hell each year, I always wanted to ask them why they were targeting small-fry sinners at a Mardi Gras party and weren’t at the White House, instead, from which a lot of really ugly sinful things like unjust war and exploitation of the poor emanated.
My thoughts exactly, Bill. Parables about pharisees, and beams and motes, and first stones, come to mind.
He must be divorced as I see divorce is not on the list.
Well-spotted!