"What will happen to them?" asked Meinwen when the portal had closed behind the two children.
I shrugged. "Who can tell?" I said. "The younger one will go to the place formally known as Limbo and the older one will be assigned a circle according to his sins. It'll be a mild punishment. What can a ten year old have done to merit more?"
"Does that go for all children?" asked Meinwen. "It seems a bit rough to punish children in Hell."
"That's Christianity for you," I said. "Original Sin did wonders for our admissions policy."
"Still..."
"Look at it this way," I said. "Lizzy Borden chopped up her parents with an axe but because she was so young all we had her do was tend trees for eternity. Her parents, mind, they got eternal torment for unrepented sins. Missing church, blasphemy and not reading the Bible every day."
"Does anybody do that?"
"No, but they were supposed to. They didn't have a television."
5 comments:
Well - I guess in the long run they had to go somewhere. Better than staying where they were - afraid and alone.
Sigh.
I'm glad I'm not a catholic.
People forget that in Christian mythos no-one goes to Heaven until the Rapture
Poor wee things. I suppose it's good they're together. No, I guess they aren't, are they?
No, but at least their memories are stripped away
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