Purgatory

 I am not so sure about this place called purgatory.  Someone said it sounds like church as social control.  Believe and behave.  You can earn purgatory.  Nothing about God’s unconditional love.  No one goes to heaven because they were good.  We go to heaven because God is good.  I think Jesus was trying to get this across, what with his eating with persons called, “sinners” by the religious officials and the culture of the “good and proper” people.  Don’t worry about the afterlife.  Work on the present life.  Try to love people who do not earn your love.  That is how God loves you.