The earliest conception of the afterlife in modern Western religion was in the Torah and was called sheol, a place of darkness removed from the light of God. The word Hades (underworld) was later substituted for sheol. The modern concept of Hell shows up the New Testament when Jesus. Now we have the Lamb of God telling us that if you do not believe in his kingdom, you will be sent to Hell where you will be tortured forver until the end of time. Nice Lucifer or the devil is an excuse used by religious zealots for their behaviour. Recently, the Pope's staff announced that the devil had moved into the Vatican to encourage pedophelia. The devil made us do it. The Mormons believe that Lucifer and Jesus are brothers People without vices have some very annoying virtues.
You should go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.
Can you have sex in hell? Does Lucifer allow sex orgies? How about sodomy and beastiality? How about father raping and mother raping? Maybe, the kids in hell are up for grabs? A rational person would think so? How many virgins do you think go to hell? What is the physical size/volume of hell? How many levels does hell have? If there are multiple levels of hell, it can be said that there is a temperature gradient between the levels because heat rises? Thus, heat pumps can be used to air condition the lower levels. Is there any temperature gradient between levels? Is hell endo-thermic or exo-thermic? How many souls reside in each level of hell? How many souls reside in hell versus heaven? Why would a merciful loving God create a place for eternal suffering?
Who's more dangerous to humanity? God or Satan.
Always remember that God created Hell and gave control of it to Satan. What a loving forgiving God. Satan, God's lackey, merely tortures people sent to Hell by God. If you worship God and all his wonderful creations, then you should worship Satan and Hell, because they too were created by God. Is Islam's hell and Chritian hell and Mormon hell all different hells? If you go to Heaven for eternity, will you be able to think of all your relatives that went to hell, for an eternity. Any organism, under the most tightly constrained conditions, will do as it damed well pleases. This notion requires Hell to have many daemons to ward off anarchy in hell, or else all Hell will break out.. The Quran is very clear that all atheists, jews and christians will go to Islam's hell, while all muslims and atheists will go to jewish hell or christian hell. As an atheist, I will have a time sharing arrangement between the various and assorted hells. When jews were sent to the Third Reich's concentration camps and worked to death (not more than 6 years), there was eventually the sweet release of death. When you go to God's specially constructed torture camp called Hell, you are tortured until the end of time. When the great flood came, all the little children in the entire world (every single one) were sent to hell. This makes Hitler's Auschwitz concentration camp look pretty benign. At least, there were survivors.
Christians will tell you that Satan has a large dinosaur fossil manufacturing facility in the backwaters of Hell where he and his minions make and distribute fossils all over the planet to fool us. Meanwhile, many people believe Hell is Florida.
The Doctrine of Purgatory The doctrine of Purgatory was defined by the Council of Florence in 1431, and was reaffirmed by the Council of Trent in 1563. This process of purification occurs in a place designated by the Catholic church as purgatory. The following text belongs to someone other than me....
The doctrine of purgatory offers a preposterous revelation of the way the theological mind works. Purgatory is a sort of divine Ellis Island, a Hadean waiting room where dead souls go if their sins aren't bad enough to send them to hell, but they still need a bit of remedial checking out and purifying before they can be admitted to the sin-free zone of heaven. In medieval times, the Church used to sell "indulgences" for money. This amounted to paying for some number of days remission from purgatory, and the Church literally (and with breathtaking presumption) issued signed certificates specifying the number of days off that had been purchased. This selling of indulgences was one of the greatest con tricks in history. What really fascinates me about the doctrine of purgatory is the evidence that theologians have advanced for it: evidence so spectaularly weak that it renders even more comical the airy confidence with which it was asserted. The entry on purgatory in the Catholic Encyclopedia has a section called "proofs". The essential evidence for the existence of purgatory is this. If the dead simply went to heaven or hell on the basis of their sins while on Earth, there would be no point in praying for them. "For why pray for the dead, if there be no belief in the power of prayer to afford solace to those who as of yet are excluded from the sight of God." And we do pray for the dead, don't we? Therefore purgatory must exist, otherwise, our prayers would be pointless! Q.E.D. This is what passes for reasoning in the theological mind.
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