Purgatory and the Cubs
The church has created some goofy stuff in its 2000+ years but nothing is goofier than purgatory. As I remember it from my best friend as a kid, who was scared to death of being sent there after he died, it's that place you go after you buy the farm if you weren't baptized, or you were a bad person or maybe if you masturbated too much (not sure on that one but if this was one of the qualifiers, he was in deep trouble). In other words this was the place where you waited to go to heaven. Kind of the Greyhound Terminal for dead people. People could actually pray you out of the place too. If you had enough people praying for you to get out of purgatory, I guess some score keeper would determine just when you had enough pray-ers and presto you were out! My friend was always worried not enough of us would pray for him...he was right. If his fate was left to the clowns I hung around with, he was going to be there a long time. Really, heaven is s...