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Well, at the risk of being predictable, here goes. A doctor, a lawyer, and a politician

walked up to the pearly gates and were confronted by St. Peter. Yes, I'm going to do this.

St. Peter, he informed them that in order to get into heaven, they would each have to answer a

question of varying difficulty based on how they lived their life on Earth. He started with a

doctor and he said, here's your question. You need to name the vessel that was sunk by an

iceberg on its maiden voyage and the doctor's all that's easy. It's a Titanic and he said,

that's correct. Welcome into heaven. He turned to the lawyer and he said, you know, he decided

that question needed to be a little bit more difficult even though he had done some good. He was a

bit of an ambulance chaser at some point in his career. And so he said, I want you to know how many

people died on that ship and the lawyer, fortunately for him, Titanic was one of his favorite

movies. He's a Leo fan. So he said 1500 people, about 1500 people. And St. Peter said, that's close

enough. Come on in. And then he turned to the politician and he said, now you're going to have to name

them all. There's a fascination in our culture with heaven. And whether it's jokes or culture references,

there's an uneniable fascination with this. And it's not a religion, religious thing. It's a human

thing. And it permeates our culture in so many different ways. In fact, I just want you to think

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