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7/2/2007 - Heaven v Hell

Whoa... I've finally completed the entire Divina Commedia. Hell and Purgatory were pretty quick reads for me, but Paradise... I dunno... all the footnotes (60% of the version I read were footnotes) were bound to get to me at some point. Anyways I'm done now. It's a very interesting book, although it contains too many errors that are caused by the fact that the book is a product of Medieval times. And no, it didn't change my point of view on the afterlife.

If there really is a Heaven and if there really is a Hell, I will choose the latter any day. It doesn't mean that I am evil, or anything like that. In fact, I think that if the whole concept as today's evangelical present it to us is God's truth with Hell being a place of eternal damnation, I think it's utterly profane to go to Heaven. The way I hear evangelicals talk about it, the number of people going to Hell will far outnumber the people who are going to Paradise, and once in Hell we are set to burn forever.

I admit, there are, and have been some EVIL sinners in the world, Stalin, Idi Amin, Pol Pot, Hitler, Nero, and many more, but to send every sinner who doesn't repent in time to Hell for eternity is entirely disproportionate. If that is really what the GOOD LORD is about, I think His Ways are highly questionnable. If this is really the choice I'm confronted with in this life, I will side with the ones who are confronted with this injustice.

On the other hand, there is the Vatican. There are rumors that very soon they will publish a paper in which they announce that there is a very good chance that we all go to Heaven, and that Hell will be empty. In that case why not Heaven, eh? I do believe that in the Bible it says that God will eventually save all, so that does offer some hope for us all, but since evangelical these days seem to be convinced that they have a monopoly when it comes to the truth, their scenario is one I feel I need to comment on. And I choose eternal damnation.

Oh well, with my luck, the truth is Dante's Divina Commedia, and I don't get accepted in either.


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7/2/2007 - Hell

Posted by SilverWind

That is what I always say, that if Heaven is going to be filled with Christains, then I much rather go to hell. Besides which all my faveorite Pagan historical figures who lived before the spread of Christianty will be there. How cool would that be, chilling with Cezaer, and Alexander the Great, and the Vikings, and the Celts.

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That would be very cool, learning first hand about these ancient greats and ancient cultures, who have never had the opportunity to become Christians. A lot cooler than getting stuck with someone who never drank, never smoked, only had sex to have children, and went to church every Sunday, I think.

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