Spiritual. Hell Is About Rocks
Noseweek|October 2018

Well to be spIrItual You don’t have to be religious.

Harold Strachan
Spiritual. Hell Is About Rocks

You don’t have to believe that way back then before the Universe started there was a sort of Moral Force composed of nothing but morality, when there was neither space nor time nor anybody to be moral. Space is the distance between things and there were no things, and time is an ingredient of space.

But Moral Force decreed an atomic table with assorted atoms which would sort of snuggle with each other to make molecules and molecules would sort of split up and replicate and then they started doing it sexually for mutations and the next step was evolution so as to bring about… about… voila! Us! Youman Beans! Vehicles of morality! Also MF decreed a place called Hell for those who were not moral, and appointed as supervisor of Hell an immoral no-good sonofabitch name of Satan who roasted everybody evermore like a piece of boerewors if they abandoned the Moral Force.

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