So manipulative…

So full of fear…

So annoying…

But guilt, fear, and manipulation work well inside church…

And the thing is… even with all that passion… all that yelling and screaming… all of that self-proclaiming certainty…

…doesn’t make any of what he’s saying any more true.

In the end, he still doesn’t know what happens to people after they die. Not for certain.

Nobody knows what happens.

We have faith.

But we don’t know.

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