Ralph Klein, a drunken abuser of the poor and the elderly during his time as Premier of Alberta, a monster with no scruples and no righteousness, has gone to hell at age 70.
We wondered at this site how we could best describe what the Ralph Klein’s of the world are and what their fate is certain to be in the afterlife and we decided that the words of our Lord Jesus Christ could be no better source for that description than anything we could come up. So we quote the Lord from the Gospel of Luke Chapter 16: 19-31 ----
“Now there was a rich man (Klein), and he regularly dressed in purple and fine linen, joyously living in splendour every day.
And a poor man named Lazurus was laying at his gate, covered with sores, and longing to feed on the mere crumbs of food that fell from the rich mans table.
Now the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to Abrahams bosom; and the rich man also eventually died and was buried.
In Hell, the rich man lifted up his eyes in torment and saw Abraham far away and Lazarus in his bosom. The rich man cried out and said, “Father Abraham have mercy on me and send Lazarus to me so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool off my tongue, for I am in agony in this flame.”
But Abraham said, “Child, remember that during your life you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus suffered bad things; but now he is being comforted here, but you are in agony. And besides this, there is a great chasm between us so that those who wish to cross over to the other side cannot do so. None may cross over from there to us.”
And the rich man said, “Then I beg you father to send Lazarus to warn my relatives who still live that they might repent and so not come to this place of torment.”
But Abraham said, “They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear what they teach and so learn.”
But the rich man said, “No Father they will not listen but if a dead man comes back from the dead and warns them then they will listen.”
But Abraham said, “If they do not listen to the teachers now, they will not be persuaded to repent even if a dead man arrived among them.”
Understand, these are the direct teachings of our Lord Jesus Christ. There is no ambivalence here, no maybe it’ll be okay if you toss a poor person some scraps, those who live like or support the ways of Ralph Klein will be condemned to the pit of damnation for ever with no hope of redemption.
Think of it as basic fairness just like Jesus points out: the poor and the lame have already suffered, why should those who caused that suffering be allowed to get off scot free? It simply wouldn’t be fair
