Have A Nice Eternity ™
“There it is,” Pasi said. Tuomi felt a lurch of anxiety in her stomach. She craned to see better and saw the holographic logo floating over the front door of the gleaming white building: a stylized bridge leading to fluffy clouds with the sun shining behind them.
“Are there protestors again?” Tuomi asked.
“Oh, there always are. Some people have nothing better to do. But the security keeps them at bay.”
It was true. As Tuomi and Pasi arrived at the square in front of the temple-like building, they immediately saw the crowd of protestors behind a fence—and the group of nearly as many security guards making sure they stayed there.
Tuomi and Pasi walked carefully in the middle of the square, as far away from the protestors as possible. Tuomi pressed against Pasi and squeezed his hand. She immediately felt safer.
“That’s quite a wall of people,” she said in a low voice.
“Mustn’t scare away customers,” Pasi muttered back. “There’s a lot of money in euthanasia.”
“Don’t do it! Repent for your sins!”
“For your own sakes! Don’t do it!”
Tuomi glance nervously to her side at the protestors, avoiding making eye contact. She saw the writing on a couple of the larger placards:
The only true gate to Heaven (There was a picture of a glowing cross underneath the text.)
I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father
except through Me. (John 14:6)
She turned away and sighed. She had been raised Christian too, but… This was science. You had to trust it. Besides, that kind of proselytizing was really annoying.
Still, she had to admit that she didn’t like this. Something about it was bothering her.
She glanced at Pasi
