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March 28, 2007

Reality of Hell Defies Logic

The Pope says that Hell is a real place and sinners really do burn forever. He said if people don't "admit blame and promise to sin no more" they face "eternal damnation - the inferno". That is a bit of a different take on Hell than that of the previous Pope, who said it was "the ultimate consequence of sin itself. Rather than a place, hell indicates the state of those who freely and definitively separate themselves from God, the source of all life and joy". Wouldn't you think that on the matter of the reality of Hell, at least, there would be some consistency between popes?

Frankly, I have a hard time understanding how anyone who believes in a good God can at the same time believe in a literal, eternal, burning Hell. Such punishment is far outside the realm of what would be characteristic of a loving and good being. I would go so far as to say if it was real and God would put me there I'm stubborn enough that I'd probably sooner burn in Hell forever than bow to such a monster. And I dare say that seeing as how I was born stubborn, God is the one who made me that way, so if he would burn me forever for being what he made me to be, that is the height of unfairness (which is also, by the way, why I can't be critical of homosexuals).

Posted by Becky at March 28, 2007 10:18 AM