Heaven: Entrance Requirement

[kpete]

[StarryNite]

1. The animals made it!

Dog and kitty angels hovering on the other side.

[Coventina]

2. Of course!

I noticed that too!

[Takket]

3. So no right wing evangelicals....

[DFW]

4. I saw that yesterday, and was going to post it, too

It should be posted, enlarged, at the entry to every so-called "house of worship" in the world, and shown for fifteen seconds prior to every TV program with televangelists that hit on their audience for money.

[StarryNite]

5. Amen!

[Hekate]

6. Love it. Another of my faves is an old man standing at the gates watching a dog bounding toward him

St Pete says, "So you're Little Billy! Scamp has told me all about you!"

(Approximate quote. If memory serves, it was also done by Wiley.)

[StarryNite]

7. Oh, my gosh...

Crying here, just had to have one of our dogs euthanized 3 months ago and I miss her dearly...every...single...day.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

12. they take over our hearts

Sorry for your loss.

[StarryNite]

17. Thank you.

They sure do take over our hearts. And when they are gone a hole is left.

[Collimator]

14. So very sorry for your loss.

I'm sure you gave her a good life and she gave you her whole heart.

[StarryNite]

18. Thank you.

She was a very key family member for over 15 years.

[wnylib]

8. My favorite on this theme is a cat on a cloud

vigorously clawing it to make cirrus clouds.

[StarryNite]

11. Awww

That sounds really neat.

[wnylib]

13. I can't remember where I saw that cartoon.

But I like it for 2 reasons. First is the typical feline behavior of irreverently clawing anything and everything. Secondly, the notion of a cat making cirrus clouds out of big, bulky, potentially threatening clouds is a metaphor for cats bringing joy with them through their antics.

[StarryNite]

19. I will remember that when I see cirrus clouds.

I will imagine a cat shredding through an ominous dark cloud.

[progressoid]

9. I understand the sentiment, but religious morals are very flexible.

There are hundreds of examples that we would find abhorrent of people practicing the morals they believed their religion taught them.
Westboro Baptist Church, ISIS, etc., easily find references in their texts to support their actions.

[TexasBushwhacker]

15. Well, Christianity has the Stay Out of Hell Free card

Jesus died for everyone's sins, correct? So a Christian serial killer gets into heaven, right?

[dchill]

16. That must be the theory.

[Hestia]

20. Had this very conversation on the bus ride home. The driver, somehow someway,

brought up churchianity as they are want to do. (Here, on our buses, we are allowed to chat with the drivers, they generally know who the regulars are and we get to know them, too.)

I asked that question - serial murderers can go if they believe, but Gandhi can't? It is so irrational that good works do not fly with dominionists just act like you believe and you are good to go. And people wonder why the churches are emptying by the droves.

Personally, there is no hell as described but that EVERYONE goes to "heaven". The ALL does not fight evil, being whole and complete and cannot be added to or subtracted from, but The ALL'S creations fight "evil." It is the dichotomy of being born on earth. There are agreements you agreed to before you were born on earth, unfortunately, a large agreement is binary, i.e., either/or, neither/nor. So it goes...

Hell is something that TPTB hold over stupid people to keep them in line, or keep them from killing/doing harm to others. We Create Our Own Hell.

Gnostic's have a true belief too -- the god of the book is the demi-urge and jesus was created by the demi-urge. In fact, earth as we know it was created by the demi-urge, not The ALL. Check out some of their teachings, they are still around.

[steventh]

10. Good one. Thanks.

Gonna try to get to a library so I can print it for my refrigerator.