re: #17 Inconsequential Consequence

Thanks CL. You know I’m an atheist so religion is more or less meaningless to me but this story really isn’t about religion, it’s about being human. The old guy may be convinced it’s his god giving him a message, but whatever validation or justification he uses to accept his actions, he recognized as a human living in a group of other humans that something he did in the past was wrong and he’s trying to fix it. That’s what we do. Even among all the bad things humans do to each other, we still, at the core, yearn to be part of a group helping each other survive, cope and even prosper.

Thanks again.

While it is a good story, you are wrong on what you see it as. It is a story about a man that feels guilty because he did something that made his deity angry. It could be something as simple as having sexual thoughts regarding another man, to him being a serial killer.

I think we are all in agreement that he probably is a good person, but based on the story he doesn’t think so, he thinks unless he atones for this act he did he is going to Hell. So he has lived a life of thinking he is a bad person because he thinks his deity is angry with him.