Do as we say, dammit, or you’re going to hell
Filed Under (Fearmongering, Whimsy) by Don C on 24-03-2008
My father-in-law told a story this weekend about an old country German who went to church and took the Holy Communion once a year, whether he needed it or not, I’d guess. Well, some ol’ holier-than-thous kept telling him that once a year isn’t enough. Enough of what I don’t know but maybe they felt he wasn’t going to make the final cut on once a year.
Anyway after they tried to make him do what they wanted one too many times the old man quit going to church altogether, which the church snobs probably didn’t mind since he was a bad influence on others; it absolutely would not do to have any more of the congregants thinking they could skate by on only one trip to church per year.
I wonder how the old church snobs would feel if they found out that Communion once a year was wholy sufficient, but just barely and that by driving the old German away from his annual pilgrimage to Church with their evil manipulations they cost him his eternal salvation?
Probably it doesn’t work that way and the old German was right when he figured he didn’t really even need to go once a year.
