# forbidden fruit **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [August 1, 2000, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forbidden-fruit/27682 "2000-08-01T08:31:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![jb\_farley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9d8465/32.png) [@jb\_farley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jb_farley)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2000, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forbidden-fruit/27682/21 "2000-08-04T05:24:32Z")
who are you interpreting for? one of the other of the million monkeys with the million typewriters? ---
**Author:** ![INTERPRETER](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dbc845/32.png) [@INTERPRETER](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/INTERPRETER)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2000, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forbidden-fruit/27682/22 "2000-08-04T11:24:23Z")
Hey J.B., relax! Life will pass you by and the first thing you know, when you die, God will appear before you and say: “Do you remember those posts you made in the year 2000? well, now’s the time to revise tham and prepare a counter-reply to your allegations - you have exactly two milleniums in purgatory to do so. Heaven’s review board will then decide whether you have the proper attitude to integrate paradise.” ---
**Author:** ![Ted](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/db5fbb/32.png) [@Ted](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ted)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2000, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forbidden-fruit/27682/23 "2000-08-04T12:08:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by INTERPRETER \* > \*\*Hey J.B., relax! Life will pass you by and the first thing you know, when you die, God will appear before you and say: “Do you remember those posts you made in the year 2000? well, now’s the time to revise tham and prepare a counter-reply to your allegations - you have exactly two milleniums in purgatory to do so. Heaven’s review board will then decide whether you have the proper attitude to integrate paradise.” \*\* Um, excuse me, but if we want to keep this biblical there is no such mention of purgatory in any biblical text. Now if you want to drag the cannon into this… =] Allthough I must admit, I’m happy that you have the guest list for Heaven. Can you tell me if Hitler made it? Sure he killed millions of jews, homosexuals and liberals, but they were all heritics anyways, right? ---
**Author:** ![Ted](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/db5fbb/32.png) [@Ted](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ted)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2000, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forbidden-fruit/27682/24 "2000-08-04T12:13:40Z")
INTERPRETER - _sigh_ I’d best appologize. I’m in a foul mood. Your reply struck a bad chord in me for some reason but it doesn’t give me an excuse to belittle you. I appologize for having done so. Ted ---
**Author:** ![INTERPRETER](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dbc845/32.png) [@INTERPRETER](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/INTERPRETER)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2000, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forbidden-fruit/27682/25 "2000-08-04T12:20:33Z")
Apology accepted, Ted - nice thing to do, thanks. Your last comment raised an issue in my mind, though, which is this: do you remember the Pope apologizing on behalf of the Catholic Church to aggrieved people victimized by injustices? I can’t exactly recollect what is was for or who or what event or events it targeted. Can you or anyone enlighten me on this? ---
**Author:** ![Ted](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/db5fbb/32.png) [@Ted](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ted)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2000, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forbidden-fruit/27682/26 "2000-08-04T13:14:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by INTERPRETER \* > \*\*Apology accepted, Ted - nice thing to do, thanks. Your last comment raised an issue in my mind, though, which is this: do you remember the Pope apologizing on behalf of the Catholic Church to aggrieved people victimized by injustices? I can’t exactly recollect what is was for or who or what event or events it targeted. Can you or anyone enlighten me on this? > \*\* This is probably what you’re thinking of: [http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/meast/03/23/pope.visit/](http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/meast/03/23/pope.visit/) [http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/03/12/pope.apology.02/](http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/03/12/pope.apology.02/) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forbidden-fruit/27682.md?page=1)