The evolution and demise of hell...

One of the clearest proofs I know (of which there are too many to count) that all religions are the inventions of human beings is the way they change with changing societal values. The beliefs of Christianity, for example, have changed dramatically in my lifetime.

As we have become a less brutal and violent society, people have found it more and more difficult to believe the traditional, biblical view of Hell. As some preachers will tell you, the Bible ascribes to Jesus far more teaching about Hell than about Heaven. And yet the idea that a loving God would consign the vast majority of his human creation to be tortured by fire (literal of figurative, it matters not) without ceasing forever is beyond the pale.

Instead, they believe that Hell is simply annihilation, or that it doesn't even exist. A powerful expression of this view can be viewed below:



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