What We Don’t Get to Assume

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“It would not rock my Protestant world at all if I died and went to heaven, only to discover that at some point in my worldly sojourn, Mary had stumbled across some aspect of my story and prayed for me. ‘Oh, my. Look at that poor sap there.’ But for me to ask her to this assumes that she has a relationship to the world, and to everyone in it, including me, that Scripture does not give me any basis for believing” (Papa Don’t Pope, p. 145).