I was thinking of these self righteous assholes who run communities, and who think it’s quite OK to send an 18 year kid to jail for 20 years for a car theft committed in a moment of rage and immaturity.
He dies, and he’s standing outside the door marked “Room of Judgement” at the head of the line. He just found himself there, and figures it makes sense. A poor woman missing her teeth is standing behind him, and says she’s scared and worried. She did meth and was a prostitute for many years, but she did her best to be kind all her life, but she just had too much to deal with. Her father and uncle molested her, she ran away when she was 14, and it never got any easier. She did take care of her sister when she was dying, got off drugs finally, and took up Buddhist meditation which finally brought her some measure of peace.
Our hero says: Buddhism? Unless you have been born again in the blood of Jesus, eternal Hell is your punishment. And he surely will not look kindly on your many years of sin, ESPECIALLY since you have not sought his forgiveness. You must surely be damned.
And Jesus, of course, appears in his true form, and says “as ye judge, so shall ye be judged” and condemns the man to the Pit.
Within my own metaphysics, of course, I don’t think these stories about eternal damnation and salvation are true. I think people more or less find the level of their measure. They rise or sink according to their actually dominant spiritual and emotional habits. But even within this model, the prostitute would be at a much higher level than this man, who is cruel, lacking in understanding and sympathy, and utterly self righteous.