Thursday reader's view: Careful what you say

To the editor:

I’d like to comment on the moral exhortations of some of the paper’s readers. Corrupted by science as I am, I find their exhortations curious. If there is an afterlife, I’d suspect we all go to the same place, which doubles both as Heaven and Hell.

How can this be? I cite the example of Hitler, who’d now find himself in the company of every Jew who ever lived, while also discovering himself incapable of exterminating any of them. His victims might be delighted, however, because all they’d have to do is say “shalom” every time they saw him to throw him into convulsions of fury as he frantically tried to escape.

Maybe our preachers of righteousness should be more careful with what they say. They just might be going to this place after they die.