Reading Time: 5 minutes Hell is at the center of evangelical Christian theology, more so than heaven or even Jesus. Without belief in hell and the exclusionary politics it inspires, Christianity would cease to exist.
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Posted inDeath & Dying
Reflections on an afterlife destination called hell
Reading Time: 4 minutes Hell is a grave topic. Everyone is going there according to the doctrines of one religion or another. No one of us is safe. And for Eastern religions, every one of us has already been to hell many times over. Owing to spotty police work in antiquity, the idea of a torturous afterlife arose to […]
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The road to hell: How a Christian missionary lost his life for nothing
Reading Time: 2 minutes In 2018, a missionary named John Allen Chau was killed by residents of North Sentinel Island, owned by India and home to the Sentinelese, one of the Andaman tribal people. After the decimation of the Amazon rainforest, they may be the only remaining Stone-Age-adjacent tribe on the planet. Chau was a Christian who felt it was […]
Posted inReligion
Would I have gone to heaven? Or hell?
Reading Time: 6 minutes Assuming that the incredibly incoherent notions of heaven and hell, a digital outcome for all humans, works and is the state of affairs, I was wondering recently about my own fate as a youngster. I don’t want to get into the long weeds of whether heaven or hell makes sense—neither of them do as I […]
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The Ruling Class
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Why the hell do you believe in hell?
Reading Time: 2 minutes I’ve been thinking a lot about heaven and hell lately, which is weird for an atheist, perhaps. There’s just none of that sweet reward and all that horrible punishment without believing in God. I guess I’ve gotten caught up in the long grass of biblical exegesis, of thinking about resurrection this or nativity that for […]
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Heaven is hellish
Reading Time: 3 minutes Imagine living in bliss in heaven. How blissful would you be once you thought of the billions in torment all courtesy of your host? Worse, think of your friends and family who didn’t make the cut, writhing in God’s Perfect Plan.
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God as an inept teacher: more problems with the logic of hell
Reading Time: 4 minutes God the teacher, substitutionary atonement, free will, and more: what sense does an all-loving God sending people into eternal torment make?