[Boreas]

Originally Posted by merrylander

Saint John in the first book of John, in Chapter 4 Verse 8 said "He that knows not love knows not God, for God is love' .

Now I find it strange that a loving God would consign someone to hell (which is really everyday life, not Dante's version) who never heard of Jesus and therefore never had the opportunity to accept Him or refuse Him.

What with me being Protestant and Florence being Catholic, and me have divorced my first wife (Anglican) we were not allowed to be married in the Church, not that it mattered since both our churches had left us - not the other way around.

Father Ray the Chaplain at HCGH visited Florence in the hospice and did give her the last rites - though she was more sinned against than sinner.

She asked that I not put her body in the ground but to have it cremated. I did and her ashes are in a beautiful urn in our Family Room. Oh yeah, the Vatican says I can't keep her ashes here in our home. Well the Vatican can go suck eggs.

You're surprised to find logical inconsistencies in religious teachings?