Getting back to our regular schedule, me, {idiot}, and my friend from the Religious Right, {RR}, will take up a discussion that I chose, for a change:

idiot: I've heard a lot about a road in Rome that Christians walk on, to get to heaven.

RR: What are you talking about?

idiot: I don't know, exactly, all I know is there's a Roman Road-

RR: Oh, you mean THE Roman Road. It's a way of showing the way to Salvation.

idiot: You lost me.

RR: In the Book of Romans, God reveals the simple truths about how to be Born Again.

idiot: Well, that's what I'm lookin' for! How's it go?

RR: Okay, it starts with Romans 3:23, which says, "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God."

idiot: That's about as clear as mud.

RR: It means we all have sin in our hearts. We all were born with sin. We were born under the power of sin's control.

idiot: So, I'm going to hell, because I was BORN that way?

RR: It's a little more complicated than that, but, essentially, yes.

idiot: Your God doesn't come across as being fair.

RR: Who are we to judge God? And how can you even use man's definition of "fair", when talking about an Almighty God?

idiot: I thought this was supposed to be a happy, "feel good" kind of a thing.

RR: In the end, it sure is.

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