I have yet to attend a funeral where the officiant
declares, The deceased has gone to hell. Does
that absence, or avoidance, create some strange
disservice to those who survive? Perhaps a
detriment to the deceased? It is our enormous
error to view the present state of nature
as a punishment for divinely-prohibited, fruit-
nibbling. While there are those who still feel
that the sun is the center of their universe,
I choose to bring the newborn baby home
with the expectation that tradition will give
her all that has been created and fall away
to something terribly and wonderfully new.
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