Beware the fires of hell

And other perils of relationships.

Ranted by Cary Tennis

Jun 18, 2002 | Steeped in the rough-and-tumble spoken-word movement, boiled in punk rock, roasted in alcohol, pressure-cooked in American literature and turned like a newel post on the lathe of American journalism, Cary Tennis considers life's most pressing questions in audio form most every week on Salon.

This week there's the age-old question of whether the avowedly agnostic girl should date the cute Christian boy. Mr. Tennis is not sanguine about the notion; indeed he thinks there will be holy hell to pay.

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