Alan: Once eternal salvation and eternal damnation are taken as realities, it is exceedingly tempting to avoid damnation by "playing the game of religion" which, paradoxically, results in scrupulous obsession with punctiliousness, parsecs removed from the capacity for ebullient joy (... think Scrooge waking up on Christmas morning...) which is the surest sign of those who live as if heaven has already begun and it only gets richer as love and service draw us inward toward the center.
Pope Francis; "There Are Two Ways Of Having Faith: We Can Fear To Lose The Saved," Or...
“There are two ways of thinking and of having faith: we can fear to lose the saved and we can want to save the lost,” Pope Francis said in front of hundreds of cardinals and bishops on Sunday, the Religion News Service reported. “Even today it can happen that we stand at the crossroads of these two ways of thinking.” He also reportedly criticized the “narrow and prejudiced” mentality of Catholics who cling to religious law out of fear. Often, he said, they ultimately reject the individuals they should be helping.
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