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Hell
I'm not what I would consider religous, I went to church every Sunday till I was about 8 and maybe 15 times in the last 20 years(not counting weddings or wakes). Yet some of the scariest movies I've seen involve Satan, demons and posession. We've learned more about Hell from poets than from prophets. Milton and Dante poured the foundation of the popular imagination of Hell today, but more and more people's opinion of Hell seem to be changing.
Being a father and having childhood friends who have been or are still in prison for atrocious crimes, I'm finding it harder and harder to believe in Hell. An omnipresent being is going to torture everyone till the end of time who didn't kiss it's ass while they were alive? If there is no Hell can there really be a Heaven? What's more grim, murderers in Heaven or no afterlife at all?
I fall into the non-believer catagory, and I'm not depressed by that at all. I could be wrong(it's happened before) but it all feels like Crowd Control and Marketing had a baby and named it Religion. What are some of your beliefs on eternal punishment, is there a hell? What is it like? How bad do you have to be to end up there?
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"The physical body is acknowledged as dust, the personal drama as delusion. It is as if the world we perceive through our senses, that whole gorgeous and terrible pageant, were the breath-thin surface of a bubble, and everything else, inside and outside, is pure radiance. Both suffering and joy come then like a brief reflection, and death like a pin" Stephen Mitchell
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