Notes from the Petting Zoo

People’s sense of right and wrong is like an unbreakable comb — it can be bent and twisted all over the place and you don’t even need eye protection.

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I’m amused that when it comes to the love of an imaginary friend, such love encompasses the whole of creation, the Universe and beyond, yet those things for which we will burn eternally are extraordinarily microcosmic and humanocentric in nature. For example, surely there are billions as many sins in the Universe than just those on this one planet. How come those other sins aren’t in the Big Book o’ Sin?

Does that mean each planet has its own Big Book o’ Sin? If that’s the case, then how can we be so sure we have the right one? I mean, what if we got someone else’s by mistake? Isn’t that alone enough to warrant diverting some of those religious donations to space exploration — to compare Sin Lists?

I would think so.

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