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Hell-- that awful place that we're all told to be scared of. It's discussions are rife with fearmongering and scare tactics. Fire and brimstone await by the way. Oh and the worm never dies and the fire never gives out. Here's some things to chew on with regards to this ghastly destination:

  1. Hell is never mentioned in the Old Testament (Christianity). Sheol is mentioned, which simply means grave. If hell is a place where millions burn for eternity, wouldn't it be downright demonic not to give anybody a heads up before Jesus shows up?

  2. Why does the narrative on hell change so much? How is it that we can go from discussing just a grave (Old Testament) to a full-fledged lake of fire with a 7 headed dragon lashing out ferociously?

  3. Last but not least, why is it that God makes most of all the people who have ever lived just to spend a blink of time on a pale blue dot and then get hurled into an eternal firey abyss? I get it that Jesus is claimed to have died for our sins. But most of humanity has not accepted that throughout the ages. God knew that would happen even before he created these people. They're damned before they're made!!!! How insane.

What do ya'll think about my objections to hell? Could these hold up in a discussion with a theist?

PeterLash 5 Dec 18
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  1. Our modern concept of hell actually comes from Dantes Inferno written in 1420 and Paradise Lost written in 1663.

  2. I recently made a video that deals with this subject. It is based on a popular Bible story. I hope you enjoy it!

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Hello and welcome. Enjoy the site.

Like any good con artist, religion changes its lines all the time to suit its victims. Its changing its attitude to hell (as well as lots of other things) now. What is really strange is how you can change everything, over and over to suit yourself, yet still claim that everything you say has the added authority of a perfect , eternal and unchanging god behind it. The trick is to stay just ultra-conservative enough, so that people without any historical knowledge can't see you changing.

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Check out Dante’s Inferno. A masterful work which much of the medieval art of Hell is based, bearing in mind he is drawing a lot on Greek myth..

If they don’t know of Dante, they have no idea of the source of the visual terror they are buying into.

Bearing in mind it is a piece of its time, it is intended to be instructional. Incredible work regardless.

Best place to be is 6th Circle with the sceptics and heretics. Before that they re all pretty dull!

I read Dantes Inferno and Paradise lost in their original text. I don't recommend it.

@DavidLaDeau Then you are missing an understanding of that peculiar animal, Medieval Christianity. And you need to read a good translation with extensive footnotes of Purgatorio and Paradiso as well.

Paradise Lost is a reaction to the turmoil of the English Civil War and more a political tract than religious commentary, although obviously couched in religious terms and imagery as would be a expected of the time but probably not relevant to the existence or not of Hell,

@Geoffrey51 Thank you very much! Reading them in their orginal form was....well....HELL!

@DavidLaDeau it would be! It is said that the Dvine Comedy is s university education in itself but it is s almost impossible to navigate without notes and footnotes.

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