Eskimo: 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' Priest: 'No, not if you did not know.' Eskimo: 'Then why did you tell me?'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
I often remembered also that I had been told, that we shall have as many devils biting us, if we go to hell, as we have unconfessed sins on our consciences.
'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'
There isn't an Eskimo who doesn't love 'Columbo.'
The greatest sin is judgment without knowledge.
Abraham, a simple farmer, at a word from the Invisible God, marched, with family and stock, through the terrible desert to a distant land to live among a people whose language he could neither speak nor understand! Not bad, that!
I asked God if it was a sin and He didn't say anything.
There is no sin but ignorance.