The Heresy of Soul Annihilation
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Summary
A man goes to a nightclub, and realizes that he looks like a piece of filth in the daylight, and then realizes that no matter how good he looked in the nightclub, he is in fact a pile of garbage in the light.
Transcript
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This video is about a heresy which is very rampant throughout Western civilization, including the Church.
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The idea that the sinner, the evil, wicked sinner, when they die, their soul is snuffed out.
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That hell is merely the ending of their existence.
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And this heresy is terribly, terribly destructive.
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And to illustrate that to you, I'd like to tell you the parable of the nightclub.
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There was a young man, a good young man, law-abiding, knew how to handle himself in a fight, but didn't start fights unnecessarily.
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And one night, he decided to go, he decided to go downtown.
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And in that club, the people in that club were a bunch of sinners, whores, thieves, people who would rape pit bulls for fun.
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With guns and knives and brand new sexual organs that you did not know existed.
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And so he went down to this nightclub, and he partied at this nightclub.
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He made friends with the owner because he wasn't misbehaved like some of them.
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He just went down there, and he was partying, and he was drinking, not to excess, just a reasonable amount.
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The whole time he was in that nightclub, he was protected because he knew not to start fights.
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You know, not the best-dressed man in the club.
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There were people that were better dressed than him.
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So the guys in the wife beaters, the guys in the cargo shorts, they didn't start it with him.
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He stood at the sidelines watching these idiots fight, knife one another over some whore.
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He stood at the sidelines and thought, hey, I'm above it all.
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I've got the sense not to get dragged down by all of this.
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He thought it was maybe 3, 4 a.m., but it turned out it was 7 a.m.
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And he popped into a diner to get some coffee and to get something to eat, sober up.
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Maybe he didn't, you know, get into a knife fight.
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Because his suit, his suit had looked so good in that nightclub.
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Because in the nightclub, you couldn't see the cigarette burn on one leg.
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In the nightclub, he'd spent so much time there all the sleeves got tattered.
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He stank a cigarette smoke and cheap perfume from the whores he'd been associating with.
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Yeah, maybe he didn't get an STD, but they left their mark on him.
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And he realized that no matter how good he looked in that nightclub, out there in the daylight, he looked like a piece of filth.
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You know, the more, the more I try and walk the righteous lifestyle.
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Not just talk the talk, like that asshole that I was in the nightclub.
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The more I come into the daylight, I realize just how tattered and shabby I am.
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Just how much I've wasted the gifts given to me.
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And any time I step out into the daylight, and you can see the torn threads.
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You can see that it's a cheap suit that doesn't fit very well.
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You know, and walking out into that light is absolutely terrifying.
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And so if I think I look like garbage when I'm standing in the light.
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Can you imagine what a sober person must think of me?
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Somebody whose faculties aren't twisted, aren't bent, aren't affected.
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And part of me wants to run back into that nightclub.
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Back into that place of pounding music and flashing lights.
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I can pretend to be better than all these other people in the nightclub.
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I've got just an inkling of how pathetic and ragged I actually am.
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And I'm pretty sure I'm a lot more pathetic and ragged than that.
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I don't want that to be under a harsh halogen lamp.
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Part of me would much rather wander into that nihilistic abyss and end my soul.
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Part of me wants to believe in those lyrics from the M.A.S.H. theme song that suicide is painless.
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I would love, I would just love, wouldn't I, to spend another 10 or 20 or 30 years partying in this nightclub.
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And then when my suit really gets ragged, when all the other party goers in this nightclub and they're beginning to look down on me and I realize that I'm one of the beasts.
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Just swallow that pill, slit those wrists, check out of the whole system.
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God utterly terrifies me because I know I don't deserve his mercy.
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And the concept of there not being a hell is a very, very tempting black pill for us to all swallow.
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So those who say or believe or promote the idea that the saints get the beatific vision.
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And everybody else just, they disappear into blackness and they stop existing.
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And people that say there is no hell, priests who say there is no hell, are doing a disservice to their flock.
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And if you're honest with yourself, you've seen it.
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You've seen it in the rage and hatred they have for you when you've done something just.
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Maybe you've even seen it when you yourself felt that rage and hatred.
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It can merely be outside of the presence of God.
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Where there is nothing but this hatred and envy and contempt and viciousness.
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And in hell, another human can torture you just as well as a demon can.
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No matter what outfit you're wearing, go walk out into the light.
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Because it is infinitely better than being trapped down there with the monsters.