Failing Gratitude 101
11th January 2022
Steve draws a lesson from life.
Hell doesn’t exist solely to punish. It also exists to bless the righteous by keeping the depraved out of their sight. When you’re in hell, the people in heaven can’t see you or hear you. They don’t get updates on you. They don’t visit. They never ask God to help you. They don’t think they owe you anything. They don’t remember you existed. You can’t put on a black outfit and a mask and go to heaven to riot for what you think are your rights.
This has to be one of the best things about heaven.
Being a do-it-yourself protestant, Steve’s ideas of Heaven and Hell are pretty far off-base, but one can certainly appreciate where he is coming from.
One of the worst aspect of the Religion of Progressivism is that it anathematizes the concept of charity. Nobody is allowed to feel good about doing something nice for a person less well off; that’s considered a character defect, because it might damage the self-esteem of the recipient. Instead, everybody deserves nice things BY RIGHT and if you have more than somebody else you are a Heretic and a Sinner unless you pass it all out until everyone is equal. This attitude has infected the less-well-off (who are, in many cases, that way because of their own deficiencies) to the point where NO GRATITUDE WILL BE FORTHCOMING for any act of benevolence, merely whining about how it’s So Unfair that X has something that Y doesn’t.