EGO TIME

An elderly, very devout priest dies and goes to
heaven. When he gets there he sees a long line
of souls moving slowly toward the Pearly Gates.
He walks to the front of the line and says to
St. Peter “What is this line?”
St. Peter tells him it’s the line to get into heaven,
and that he must go to the end and wait his turn
with the other souls.
“But surely, St. Peter, I’ve devoted my life to God
and deserve to get through the gates before many
of these ordinary humans.”
But St. Peter simply says “No exceptions” and
turns him away.
So the priest walks for hours to get to the end of
the line, then endures several days of creeping
along in the slowly moving line. Finally, he’s back
within sight of the Pearly Gates and wiping the
sweat off his brow, when suddenly a limousine
appears, headed in the direction of the
Pearly Gates. As it passes him, he looks inside
and sees … Barack Obama!
The priest watches closely as the limousine
drives all the way up to the gates, stops briefly
by St. Peter, then ENTERS through the Gates.
The priest is incensed; he asks the person behind
him to save his place and he hikes the 1/4 mile
or so to the front of the line and strides right
up to St. Peter and says:
“St. Peter, this cannot be right. You have sent
me, a man of the cloth, to wait in line for several
days, but you let Barack Obama go right through
the gates? How can this be fair?”St. Peter turns
to him and says:
“No no, my good man, that wasn’t Barack Obama.
That was God. He just THINKS he’s
Barack Obama!!”
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