I'm not interested in absolute moral judgments. Just think of what it means to be a good man or a bad one. What, after all, is the measure of difference? The good guy may be 65 per cent good and 35 per cent badthat's a very good guy. The average decent fellow might be 54 per cent good, 46 per cent badand the average mean spirit is the reverse. So say I'm 60 per cent bad and 40 per cent goodfor that, must I suffer eternal punishment?"Heaven and Hell make no sense if the majority of humans are a complex mixture of good and evil. There's no reason to receive a reward if you're 57/43why sit around forever in an elevated version of Club Med? That's almost impossible to contemplate.
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