Re: OT: Prayer, ritual and magic // was conlang website

On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Yoon Ha Lee wrote:

> I often think I would make a much, much better agnostic than a
> Christian.  <sigh>
And I think that I would probably be happier as a person of faith,
if I were able to be one, but I can't accept it --- not even fideism.
<sigh>

> [A] teacher once told me this about forgiveness and it
> has helped me much: when God forgives it's like taking the nails out of a
> piece of wood.  The nails aren't there any longer so He sees our sins no
> more...but we still have the holes.
That's the purpose of Purgatory: to putty the holes.

--
John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore
        --Douglas Hofstadter