A Parable of Two Evils

From the archives. Decipher this if you can:

PARABLE FOR THE TIMES

There was once two brothers who grew up together. They became hard-core crooks and did every evil thing under the sun. Suddenly one of them died.

In organising the funeral the surviving brother asked a preacher to
conduct the funeral. The preacher was reluctant knowing how evil the
deceased had been. The surviving brother pled with him promising to pay
him anything. He told the preacher he'd pay a large sum of money, just as
long as the preacher referred to his deceased brother as a "saint". He was
entitled to call the brother whatever he wanted so long as he referred to
him as a saint. The preacher found this odd but after some more pleading
by the surviving brother he agreed to conduct the funeral.

At the funeral when the preacher stood up to describe the deceased, he spoke the truth about him. "This man who lies here was a criminal of the worst kind. He committed every debauched sin under the sun and was as evil as evil could get." And he continued with his description of the evilness of the
deceased.

Then he added. "But compared to his brother, he was a saint!"

Get it???

Heavenise day!

Ganjiki
(7/04/12)