“Again, we’ll have to consider Vince’s religious beliefs,” DeLong said. “The way he explained it to me, God gives everyone a choice. Only those who choose freely to be ‘saved’ are worthy of redemption. He’s at least staying true to his principles by giving them the free will to make the choice, rather than imposing salvation on them. At the same time, he’s loaded the dice wildly in his favor, like any good propagandist. After experiencing that Hell, a person would have to be crazy not to want to stay out of it. I’ll bet Vince probably even thinks he’s doing people a favor; by influencing their free choice in the matter, he really thinks he’s saving their immortal souls.”
“That’s the kind of favor I can do without,” Ernie White muttered.
Schulberg looked at the other three men. “All right
