text:  This is a very sad thing, and about this, particularly the self-righteous religious individual, if he thinks that God is well-pleased with his sort of brand of asceticism, you might not know what that is, but it's extreme self-denial. So many people like that, or they think God's impressed with their self-denial, and they actually believe that they're going to spend eternity in heaven based on how they live their life on this earth.