February 12, 2002
Sheep and Goats

So you're familiar with the story of the sheep and the goats, rights? It's one of Jesus' parables in which he talks about the end times, when the righteous and unrighteous are seperated from each other. At the end, the judge turns to the righteous and lists the good things they've done, to which they reply, basically, "Hey, when did we do that?"

I'm reading the story the other day and this thought occurs to me: Maybe it says something about which side I'd end up on, but I'm thinking that if I was standing with the good guys and somebody started saying "when did we feed you? When did we clothe you?" I'd elbow them in the stomach and say something like, "Oh, yeah, I remember. Uhh, that one time, in .... uh ... yeah, that place. Yeah, right." Of course, doing so would no doubt get me instantly goatafied, but still -- it's hard to see the percentage in trying to argue that you're not supposed to be on the sheep side.

Posted by tgibbons at February 12, 2002 04:55 AM