Just found this great quote:
The Eskimo asked the local missionary priest, 'If I did not know about God and Sin, would I go to Hell?' 'No,' said the Priest, 'not if you did not know.' 'Then why,' asked the Eskimo earnestly, 'did you tell me?'
This goes together with Bono allegedly reported to have been clapping his hands in a fundraising concert, claiming: Each time I clap my hands a child dies. And someone from the crowd: Then stop clapping your bloody hands!
Which makes me think, how often is the case that we see evil around us, yet instead of working at the solution we sit on our asses or become part of the problem?
Some missionaries belong to the first category, some to the third... How many, you ask? Good point... needs research, just after I go donate some cash to a charity not ruled by any church. I don't want to be the kettle saying black to the pot...
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Nice jokes, both of them. What about donating cash to Bono?
Jokes? The first one definitely is not: if one not knowing the Truth incurs no risk of spending eternity in Hell, then telling him the Truth is as immoral as stealing candies from a kid. Many times per day. For a year.
About Bono, he doesn't need my cash and he's not a charity :) plus, he's not sitting on his ass, but he's not doing half as much as he could... just like the pope, preaching for us to share with the less fortunate and to lead a sober life while sitting on a throne with a golden hat perched on his head... I have another quote which goes something like: Jesus entered st Paul and stared at the baroque ornaments. Confused, he was, he had seen spanish Harlem on his way in, and was wondering how come fifty peurtoricans were living in a single room while those pieces of stained glass were worth 20 grands per square foot...
Just some of the contradictions the church has embedded within itself in the last couple of millennia...
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