I walked through the empty room and stopped at the side entrance to the casino. There were two kids, around four and six, picking up spilled Cheetos off the casino floor and eating them. Squatting next to them was their obese dad, wearing a Dallas Cowboys jersey, denim shorts, and sandals. He smiled and winked at me, as if to say, “Kids, am I right?” I thought, God came and took His chosen people a long time ago and this is what’s left. Before heading to heaven with His chosen few, God looked at the Earth and its remaining millions and thought, Well, I could smite the rest of them, but what if
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