How Many Cans?

Trey Smith

The way I learned it as a kid is that, when you get to the pearly gates, God or one of his angelic minions will ask if you read your bible religiously, followed the ten commandments and accepted Jesus Christ as your personal lord and savior. If you provide truthful answers that are deemed acceptable, then said gates swing open and you are escorted inside.

The other day I was thinking, what if Christians have the overall setting correct, but are prepping people to answer the wrong questions? What if the Heavenly Father really doesn't care that much about books, rules and celebrity worship? What other kinds of questions might he ask, particularly to a resident of the Western World?

Working off this motif of pearly gates and a god, here are five questions I guess he might ask.

1. How many tons of "garbage" did you throw away in your lifetime?
2. What percentage of your overall salary or wages did you utilize to better the lives of people you never met?
3. How many cans did you recycle each year?
4. How many wars did you support by electing people to wage them for you as well as  through your consumer habits and behaviors?
5. How many completely selfless acts did you commit that made a genuine positive difference in the lives of people you said you loved?