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A Child’s Christmas Prayer of Despair for a Hindu Saint

Santa Claus,

for Christmas, please,

don’t bring me toys, or games, or candy . . .

just . . . Santa, please,

I’m on my knees! . . .

please don’t let Jesus torture Gandhi!

 

Will Jesus Christ cause or allow Albert Einstein and Mahatma Gandhi to be tortured in an "eternal hell" for guessing wrong about which earthly religion to believe? What about Jesus's parable of the Good Samaritan, who put aside religious differences to practice compassion? Did Jesus, who saved all his sternest criticism for hypocrites, talk the talk but fail to walk the walk? Or did Christian theologians get something very, very wrong? And what would Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny say about such intolerance and infinite cruelty? Keywords/Tags: Christianity, Jesus Christ, Santa Claus, Christmas, heaven, hell, salvation, Gandhi, Hindu, saint, knees, kneeling, prayer, mercy, compassion, grace, toys, games, candy

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michael-r-burch
62 / M / Nashville, Tennessee
Published
Mar 1, 2020
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#christianity#jesus#christ#santa#claus#christmas#heaven#hell#salvation#gandhi
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