Calvinists tell me that it doesn’t matter if I am good or bad. All that matters is that I have read the right things and subscribe to the right things.
Catholics tell me the same, but their “things” are different.
Why am I so obsessed with what is simply true?
I am not a Heroic Tough Guy. I freely admit that the ideas of Heaven and Hell I was raised with bother me. A Heroic Tough Guy would have no such problems.
Face it. I’m a wimp.
But I’m a wimp who simply cannot get over something in my blood that says, ‘Screw the Truth, it is not true!”
It never occurs to me that this is an economically rational idea. There is no reward in any religion for sticking to the truth.
It is irrational and pointless, but I will never do anything else.
Oh, hell, let’s get back to talking about Iraq.
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