my life as a artist
jesus wants us for a sunbeam
Sunday 6th January 2008 8:15 PM
Hooth comments that she doesn't think Jesus would agree with Ratty, that hell is a real place where people really burn forever in eternal flames of damnation. To be honest Hooth, I don't think Judas would either. Ratty promulgates a life-denying cosmology of such breath-taking crudity that, bearing in mind the massive influence of the Catholic church, it is as you say, not very funny.
Besides the massive carbon footprint, it's the sheer never-endingness of the punishment that I find most disturbing. If the flames of hell are so agonising, and the gnashing of teeth so terrible, surely twenty to twenty-five minutes (or thirty-five to forty minutes at a lower setting) would suffice for the gravest of sinners? But eternity? Imagine you're a catholic, and you've just endured a thousand years of uninterrupted, writhing agony, for being gay and listening to Pogues records, and you ask God to stop and he tells you that your punishment's only just begun. It'd certainly test your faith.
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Rory, did you MEAN to call the blog, 'My life as A artist' or did you really mean to say: 'My life as AN artist'?
Just wondering...
Posted by Steve , on Friday 11th January 2008, 8:02 PM
I keep trying to comment but it won't let me - unless it's just boring stuff like this. Bah.
Posted by Steve , on Friday 11th January 2008, 7:52 PM
(I was commenting on Steve's comment to the last blog...I confess. Sorry for any confusion)
Posted by Hooth , on Friday 11th January 2008, 5:42 PM
And I think you are being unnecessarily negative in your approach to this existential question, Steve (and who the hell is Sonny Jim?) (Ominously the validation word is "when") (i'm feeling intimidated now)
Posted by Hippy out of the Horn aka Hooth , on Friday 11th January 2008, 5:40 PM
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