>Do you mean that it is predestined who goes to heaven and hell? Despite a person's best efforts?
Unfortunately or fortunately, depending on how you look at it, it's not your effort that counts, because you can't earn your way into heaven. There is only one thing you need to do.
The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money.
- Alexis de Tocqueville
No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.
– Mark Twain (1866)
