"I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' 'No,' said the priest, 'Not if you did not know.' 'Then why,' asked the Eskimo, 'did you tell me?'"
Sunday, December 9, 2018
preservation of Inuit
(originally published January 28, 2011.)
"I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' 'No,' said the priest, 'Not if you did not know.' 'Then why,' asked the Eskimo, 'did you tell me?'"
~Annie Dillard
"I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' 'No,' said the priest, 'Not if you did not know.' 'Then why,' asked the Eskimo, 'did you tell me?'"
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