Yesterday, we talked briefly about how Hell developed as an idea before Christianity’s creation — and how it developed in other religions alongside Christianity. Today, let’s look at how the earliest Christians further developed existing ideas about Hell.
Today, let’s talk about the prehistory of the Christian notion of Hell.
Today, let’s look at how Hell-believers deal with this very potent conflict with their Happy Pretendy Fun Time Game.
Hi and welcome back! Lately, we’ve been talking about Hell — as a concept, yes, but also as a beloved threat by a large number of Christians today. As threats go, this one’s absolutely ludicrous. There’s not a chance in Hell (hehe) that any aspect of it could be real. Read more
Hi and welcome back! Lately, we’ve been talking about Hell — as a concept, yes, but especially as a beloved threat from toxic Christians. Constantly, such Christians deploy this threat to strong-arm new victims into complying with their various demands. Of course, they also use it to keep existing Christians’ Read more
Hi and welcome back! Last week, we dove right into Hell. That post pointed out how many different religions have featured Hell-like afterlives in their belief system. Today, we’ll dive back into Hell to ask why the idea of Hell fails so hard as a Christian threat. The Many Nested Read more
Hi and welcome back! After I ran that post about how my fear of Hell got burned out of me one night, some folks wanted some more info about what I learned about Hell afterward. It’s been a long time since we talked much about Hell, so I thought that Read more
Tonight I was reading a blog by a sweet-seeming sane Christian, John Pavlovitz. He’s a great guy, and he writes often about the worst beliefs and practices of his onetime tribe. As you can easily guess, any time he writes about that topic, outraged, indignant toxic Christians descend upon him like locusts. Read more