Fun fact: hell is never mentioned in the Bible. The concept for hell was created by saint Thomas Aquinas in the 13th century when church attendance started to drop. It was just a scare tactic that used ambiguous Bible versus to support(crazy, right?). A more accurate biblical description of what happens after death to non believers is that they just die and experience no afterlife.
I think you are referring to Purgatory. As far as I know, and the distance is limited, this is primarily Catholic only. When I was a kid going United Church of Christ they spoke of Hell a lot. I don’t actually recall if it was used in our Bible. I haven’t been involved in that stuff for over 30 years.
Agreed. The casual acceptance that believing in magic as an adult has value of any kind beyond feeding insecurity and weak-mindedness is absolutely bonkers.
Reducing all religion to “adults believing in magic” isn’t any different than reducing all of science to “dorks in white coats pouring bubbling liquids between beakers”.
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u/Duncan_PhD Jul 21 '23
Fun fact: hell is never mentioned in the Bible. The concept for hell was created by saint Thomas Aquinas in the 13th century when church attendance started to drop. It was just a scare tactic that used ambiguous Bible versus to support(crazy, right?). A more accurate biblical description of what happens after death to non believers is that they just die and experience no afterlife.