"Thanks, Mr. George Carlin, for all the laughs. Somehow I know you’ll keep ‘em angels gigglin’ where you’re going."
To which 13 replied:
"... I doubt he ever thought he would go to an imaginary heaven or see imaginary angels."
To which I replied in 15:
"I knows it was angels I heard tonight cuz worms got no sense of humor at-all."
Later, 33 said:
"An atheist does not go to Heaven!!"
And 43 asked me:
"Nice thoughts, but what makes you think that?"
To which I reply:
In particular because of the quality of laughter that his vinyl recording brought me during a trying time in 1973 -- in particular, the bit about why it's handy that snot should be camouflage green and not florescent pink. I have it on good authority that there are angels who made note of the moment.
As for the other, I don't believe in atheists. An atheist can no more be than a soap bubble can without air. And even if I thought I had prophetic powers, and understood all mysteries and all knowledge, and had all faith, so as to remove mountains, I would not presume to concern myself with the quality of someone else's afterlife or personal relationship with the LORD. That's not my bailiwick. I've my own to tend to -- and that's an effort that calls for all my heart, all my soul, all my strength, and all my mind. And as if that wasn't enough, I am reminded that in my free time I am commanded to love my neighbor as myself! Goll-lee. Yet it seems there are some who hold that God hasn't got a sense of humor. Oh well. Not my bailiwick.
Um...that's a pretty big stretch. No one on this thread has said that God won't let him into Heaven because God doesn't like his jokes, they've said he won't go to Heaven for the same reason the Bible does: Because you must "confess with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord,' and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead" in order to be saved.
People aren't nosy riff-raff busybodies because they believe what God has said. If Carlin died an atheist, he is most certainly not in Heaven. If he repented and accepted God's grace, his name is written in the Book of Life and he dwells in Paradise today. Believing that isn't judging, it's taking him and God at their word.
As for Carlin I do hope he was just kidding but when I saw and heard what he said it reminded me of old Uncle Wright BO's pastor..I would never waste money on anyone making fun of me or my Christian brother an sisters although I would pay to get a good laugh..Carlin is just not funny he is Pathetic..
And with that said I do hope he RIP where ever he may be...
one word: platypus.
Gonna miss ya, George. Thanks for the memories. I think Trey and Matt have taken up the fight with the pompous, stuffy and insecure, but you were the pioneer. I'm sure you're up on the roof, somewhere. Go in peace.