Big Wide World

i have a question that i don't think i have the answer to, so i'll put it out there.

this question involved morality and religion, so consider this my official disclaimer. lol. apparently, that's the thing to do these days, even if you're not actually doing anything that may be in any way illegal. but there it is.

ok, clearly, nietzsche and philosophical religion, and ethnocentrism aside, there is inevitably, a good and a bad (and not in the "thinking makes it so" kind of way). i acknowledge that there are degrees of right and wrong, but lets just assume that there is a clear "right" and a clear "wrong". next, lets assume that there is a heaven and a hell in the spiritual "heaven is up there somewhere" and "hell is down there somewhere and you will burn there for eternity" kind of way.

now assuming all of this, lets say there is someone, either schizophrenic or seriously "not there" mentally. if they perform "bad" (kill etc) acts because they think they are doing it for the right reasons, would that person still be able to go to heaven? i mean, i'm thinking that you get up there to the pearly gates and st. peter doesn't say "um, yeah, i know that you heard voices, something totally out of your control, and you couldn't help yourself, but, um, we're just not going to let you in. yeah, that would be bad precedent, and just bad modjo for everyone else." (i know, i do a kick ass impersonation of st. peter). i'm thinking that it should be about intent, not the act itself. but i don't know. i mean, in the end, you have blood on your hands, so you don't want to be letting killing psychos into heaven.

this is what happens when you actaully read stuff. reading and edumacation = bad. me no like it, me brain hurts.