And after the declaration of hell’s fire beckoning, the pastor turned gently with his Britney Spears headset and got soft in the eyes– the kind of soft that every good Shakespearean actor knows to play.  It comes with the cock of the head and the worry of the stage right eyebrow–

“Salvation is like a plane ride,” he said. “You all have to land on the same Jesus runway to get it.”

(but what if it was actually true that the runway is salvation, and Jesus is the plane, and it doesn’t matter how you get to the plane, or even what you call it, because the plane is actually a spinning globe we all occupy, and we all always land in the right place.

…and how does that extend to the important matter of riding First Class?)