Re: Purgatory?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chunky Salsa
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> € R.L. Measures wrote:
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chunky Salsa
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>€ R.L. Measures wrote:
> >>
> >>>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joseph Geloso
> >>><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >><snip>
> >>
> >>>>Even if that were all that is required to enter Heaven -- which it's
> >>>>really not -- how can you guarantee to yourself that you will
> >>>>definitely persevere to the end, even in that? Or is it not necessary
> >>>>to persevere to the end, in order to be saved? ...
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>**  The salvic blood of The Christ washes away even the sin of serial
> >>>priestly pedophelia -- provided that less than 70 times 7 (490) kids were
> >>>boinked.
> >>
> >>Less than 490?
> >>
> >>What if exactly 490?
> >>
> >>Are you so rigid as to claim that 489 instances of pedophelia can be
> >>forgiven but 490 cannot?
> > 
> > 
> > **  This is a hellish question since the book of Matthew is not clear
> > about whether one should forgive 489-times or 490-times, so the safest
> > course of action for a pedophile-priest is to play it safe and not mess-up
> > the lives of more than 489 children.  However, this is apparently not a
> > problem since no pedophile-priest has so far lived long enough to come
> > even within a hundred children of the 489 mark.   (Fr. James A. Porter
> > apparently holds the record at c. 250)
> 
> So, as Monty Python would say, 491 is "right out"?

€  damn right

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