Iamnothere000
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Imagine, if you will, a small village set in medieval times. There was a pious Peasant who suddenly became sick with some kind of disease. He went to the priest and asked him why God would make him sick, despite him being a faithful Cristian all through his live.
The priest replied that the Peasant got sick because he was apparently not really such a faithful man since, if he where, God would surely have prevented him from falling sick. The peasant was advised to “work on his piety” and, if he did so successfully, God would heal him.
The peasant then went through a lot of painful, humiliating and financially draining rituals in order to prove to God that he was in fact a firm believer. He was now even more diseased and returned to the priest to ask why God would still refuse to heal him. The answer was that the peasant was “in his heart of hearts, which only God could see” even less faithful then before. Again he was advised to improve his relationship with God.
After a number of such iterations the Peasant died. The End.
Does this remind you of anything?
The priest replied that the Peasant got sick because he was apparently not really such a faithful man since, if he where, God would surely have prevented him from falling sick. The peasant was advised to “work on his piety” and, if he did so successfully, God would heal him.
The peasant then went through a lot of painful, humiliating and financially draining rituals in order to prove to God that he was in fact a firm believer. He was now even more diseased and returned to the priest to ask why God would still refuse to heal him. The answer was that the peasant was “in his heart of hearts, which only God could see” even less faithful then before. Again he was advised to improve his relationship with God.
After a number of such iterations the Peasant died. The End.
Does this remind you of anything?