God Punishes!
And, by extension, so does Sister Mary Margaret, your old parochial school teacher. If you sin, it is said, you will have to pay for that sin, unless, of course, you believe in Jesus and repent of the same. Sister Mary Margaret, though, is still going to crack your knuckles with her ruler, repentance and Jesus aside.
Some people are puzzled about all this. They see people like Donald Trump, out there breaking all of the commandments, and with impunity. He doesn't get punished. Neither do the oligarchs. For their sins, they become wealthy and powerful. So, what's up with that?
There's a misunderstanding, it seems. A catch or something. Apparently, punishment doesn't come in meat space. It's for after that, when you are dead and buried, it appears. And, if you're a Christian, even a putative one, apparently, all that bad stuff is forgotten and you get to be a heavenly oligarch or villain.
It's a weird deal. Let's say you're a young black man and you want to meet a friend in Starbucks who said he'd buy you a soy latte. So, you go in, and sit down to wait for him, but you have to potty, so you ask the nice lady at the counter for the code to the locks on the restroom, just like you saw that white guy do. Then, suddenly, cops are there, handcuffing you and taking you to jail. You get punished, and you didn't do a damned thing wrong. What's up with that nonsense? You get punished, but the guy in the White House gets richer and more powerful.
There's no sense in trying to figure it out, though. The thing is that none of that stuff is true in the first place. Everyone just dies and that's that. The rest is all to keep us ordinary folks walking the line. That's all.
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