Many religions have some kind of Hell-like concept. Hell is probably at least as important as Heaven and Paradise. Religious leaders need this scary place full of suffering in the mist by the hills to make people stay loyal with their Gods and with their religious authorities. The latter is probably the most important.
Different people have different perceptions of Hell, and I have mine. Hell is a place with geology field trips at day time, black metal concerts in the evening, and … yes, you know what I think of … at night.
Hell is probably a place where it’s easy to sell ice cream.
Hijab is
Haram in
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Hell is separation from God and everyone else. Hell is the complete absence of goodness and light. I thank God that Jesus has invited me to Heaven.
ReplyDeleteHell is separation from God and everyone else. Hell is the complete absence of goodness and light. I thank God that Jesus has invited me to Heaven.
ReplyDeleteThat's an interesting way to see it.
DeleteI don't actually believe in hell. At times I can buy in to forms of reincarnation and sometimes that would be a form of hell, but I don't think we take our sentience as our energy transfers, so even that hell of a life would be all we knew.
ReplyDeleteI don't believe in Hell either, but I find the role that Hell has played in religion quite interesting. Right now I read a biography about the author Kjell Askildsen, who grew up in a very religious home. He says that the main motivation for Christian belief in his hometown (in the 1930s) was the fear of Hell.
Deletethere is no hell. there is no heaven. there is only reconnection. hell is a made up place to scare people into obedience. and I have no use for a god that would send souls to eternal damnation just because they 'sinned'. especially a so-called 'loving' god.
ReplyDeleteI don't believe in Heaven and Hell either. Both concepts loose the meaning for an atheist
DeleteMaybe hell is now and here; govern by fear(s) and filled with an emotional poison we have created.
ReplyDeleteYes, I agree that's a way to see it, but possibly without any direct reference to god
DeleteHell was never made for us. God created it for Satan and the fallen angels. And Satan hates God's children because He loved them more than the angels, so he really hates it when humans show up in hell.
ReplyDeleteThat's one possible image, or representation of it.
DeleteAgree with Cairns and Cavanaugh, though not too sure about the latter's last sentence. Satan wants to take as many people as possible to hell with him because we are made in God's image.
ReplyDeleteI guess that's a question of theological interpretation
Deletehahaha. Hell would be a place that sells you the worse-tasting ice cream you can imagine. Some days, I think we're living in hell when I read story after story of moronic things that our so-called representatives in government do.
ReplyDeleteTake 25 to Hollister
Due to the heat, even bad ice cream will sell >:)
DeleteThe latter is definitely the most important.
ReplyDeleteI think so too
DeleteI have reexamined my views on hell in the last couple of years. I come close to not believing in it at all, and there is a large stream of Christians who no longer believe in it. My questions then go to justice...like, not just regular people doing stupid or even bad things...but the truly evil ones (oh, like Hitler, for instance). Is there REALLY no justice for them?
ReplyDeleteOf course, it's possible my idea of "justice" is skewed, too.... ;)
I think it's natural that modern theology moves in a more abstract direction, re-interpreting many of the concrete or metaphoric descriptions, such as Heaven, Hell, Genesis and Noah's Ark, which caused some trouble for early Egyptology.
DeleteRegarding bad guys; the has been some really bad guys working for the Catholic Church too, such as the Pope John XII and Bernardo Gui.