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When the faceless Jeebus sends someone to the Deep South, the phrase he always uses is...
Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.
This is Matthew 25:41, part of the parable of the sheep and the goats:
When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory and before him shall be gathered all nations; and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats; and he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world, for I was ahungered, and ye gave me meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in; naked, and ye clothed me; I was sick, and ye visited me; I was in prison, and ye came unto me. Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee ahungered, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? Or naked, and clothed thee? And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was ahungered, and ye gave me no meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and ye clothed me not; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee ahungered, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or in prison, and did not minister to thee? Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into life eternal.
This is important because it pokes a very large hole into the basis of Chick Theology: only faith is required to get you into heaven. This passage ties into Matthew 7:21--"not everyone who saith unto me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven." (We'll stick with the KJV because Jack says anyone who uses any other translation of the Bible is going straight to hell.) Obviously both the "sheep" and the "goats" are highly religious. But the sheep are faith-and-works guys, whereas the goats are faith-only. (The goats also invented glass so they could build massive edifices to The Lord in which they'd learn that works will not get you into heaven. But we won't get into that right now.)
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