TITLE: Precipitating Paradise

AUTHOR: Benjamin Deeb

CATEGORY: Death

CREATOR COMMENTARY:

This essay discusses a “theological loophole” practiced throughout the medieval Catholic Church. Individuals would set in motion a chain of events that would inevitably bring about their death, but with enough time before the conclusion to confess their sins, thus gaining absolution from the act and gaining entrance to Heaven. It applies to this theme and cateogory as an example of mankind going to great lengths to subvert the power of death.

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CREATOR BIO:

Alumnus, Class of 2009. Ben Deeb is a science teacher and freelance writer living in Los Angeles. In his spare time he enjoys reading, single malt Scotch, and using Oxford commas.