Just A Thought
18/12/06 23:43 Filed in: General
Nonsense
I was
scanning the headlines of the tabs in Centra on
Sunday morning, and one in particular caught my eye.
I think it was in The Star, and it said something
like "Killer Will Go To Funeral", the jist of the
story being that the killer of Marlo Hyland will be
in the congregation of his funeral, to pay his
respects to the man he dispatched to oblivion.
This got me thinking - how would a priest go about the funeral of a gangland killer? Anyone who believes in Heaven and Hell would surely expect that when a scumbag like Hyland steps on the celestial elevator, he's can only go in one direction - down. Every funeral I have ever been to has the priest commending the soul of the departed into the loving embrace of Himself Upstairs. How could a priest do that in the case of Hyland or someone like him, knowing that the person who used to inhabit the corpse in front of him was a murdering, thieving, drug-dealing, misery-spreading bastard?
This got me thinking - how would a priest go about the funeral of a gangland killer? Anyone who believes in Heaven and Hell would surely expect that when a scumbag like Hyland steps on the celestial elevator, he's can only go in one direction - down. Every funeral I have ever been to has the priest commending the soul of the departed into the loving embrace of Himself Upstairs. How could a priest do that in the case of Hyland or someone like him, knowing that the person who used to inhabit the corpse in front of him was a murdering, thieving, drug-dealing, misery-spreading bastard?