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Savages

Two young men.  Mid-twenties.  Talking about a "loser" friend.  Not too bright.  Working in a deli.  Not going anywhere.  Just earning the best living he can.  You know the type:  not like us winners.

"There is a verse in the Old Testament," one said, "that says that if a child is born out of wedlock, it will never see the kingdom of heaven".

I wonder whether there is such a verse.  Sounds awful.  A damnable thing to say, if it is there.  I don't want to look it up.  I do know the Bible says you can stone a woman to death if she wears two different kinds of cloth clothing.  Lots of other ignorant, purely damnable stuff.  So I half-believe it is there.

The point is not whether primitive people were savages:  they were.  And the point is not that some of the savages live on, and work at Lockheed, or Unisys, or at Thompson Reuters.  But in what universe should a child go to hell because its parents were not married according to nomadic rituals?  Not in mine.  In my universe, it is the mindless people who quote savages that we should worry about.  They vote.  They go to church and learn and believe that stuff, and think it is good.

They look just like sentient beings, and they speak like mindless savages.  They quote the Bible.  Savagely.  

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