Catholic Fundamentalists always look for hard numbers in Scripture to help quantify things. Matthew 23;24 is a typical case in point. “Ye blind guides, which strain out a gnat (from what they are drinking), and swallow a camel.” describes those whom Jesus condemned for hypocrisy.
We conclude that the Second Person of the Holy Trinity has told us that anyone who about a moral peccadillo the size of a gnat and then swallows an immorality the size of a camel has lost the possibility of salvation. This seems to be a mathematical formula by which we may measure exactly the amount of sin that is mathematically certain to result in damnation.
One hundred thousand gnats weigh a pound. A camel weighs 1,500 pounds. So, the Catholic Fundamentalist calculates that the “The Gnat/Camel Ratio of Certain Damnation is 1 to 150,000,000”.
The worst thing about democracy, from the point of view of soul-saving, is that it gives many, many political figures several terms filled with opportunities to spend one hundred and fifty million dollars without providing one dollar of real benefit to those from whom it was taken.
That same political figure, in the midst of wasting one hundred and fifty million dollars over and over again on useless programs will choose to go to a filling station that will sell gasoline for a couple of cents less per gallon than a station down the road. That official has, of course, strained at a gnat while swallowing no end of camels.
