A letter from Hell

A letter from Hell

by SouthernFriedInfidel Published on November 3rd, 2009, 5:12 am Rift: RELIGION

Back in the 19th century, an Irish priest named John Furniss wrote some religious literature for children. I have a copy of the entire book, but one of my favorite parts of it is a "delightful" bit called "The Sight of Hell," intended to scare little kids to death about "the bad place."

Bringing this age old tradition into the 21st century, we have "A Letter from Hell"

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A correspondent of mine sent this to me, saying that her sister had recommended it as a great thing to share with kids. It's things like this that make me wonder why this religion of "love and light" spends so much effort on fear and guilt. Too much of the time, in too many places... these poor people have lost all contact with what "love" is.

[A Person]

This is based on exactly the same amount of knowledge and sincerity


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[Liv]

So when you go to Hell, and get burnt, do you go into shock... or does God shut that off just to mess with you?

[BecauseHeLives]

So when you go to Hell, and get burnt, do you go into shock... or does God shut that off just to mess with you?

Hell is nothing compared to the lake of fire...

[Liv]

So it's all pain, all the time? Like sciatica.... I had that... hurts like crap.

[SouthernFriedInfidel]

So it's all pain, all the time? Like sciatica.... I had that... hurts like crap.

It's odd how the injustice of the concept of Hell is always ignored by the pushers. Oh, they try to rationalize it, but the basic notion of a punishment that is infinite, in response to any finite crime, is not justifiable.

[BecauseHeLives]

So it's all pain, all the time? Like sciatica.... I had that... hurts like crap.

It's odd how the injustice of the concept of Hell is always ignored by the pushers. Oh, they try to rationalize it, but the basic notion of a punishment that is infinite, in response to any finite crime, is not justifiable.

How can a finite person truly understand infinity?

[Sanjuro]

So it's all pain, all the time? Like sciatica.... I had that... hurts like crap.

It's odd how the injustice of the concept of Hell is always ignored by the pushers. Oh, they try to rationalize it, but the basic notion of a punishment that is infinite, in response to any finite crime, is not justifiable.

Stupid is as stupid does.

[Serendipitous]

So it's all pain, all the time? Like sciatica.... I had that... hurts like crap.

It's odd how the injustice of the concept of Hell is always ignored by the pushers. Oh, they try to rationalize it, but the basic notion of a punishment that is infinite, in response to any finite crime, is not justifiable.

How can a finite person truly understand infinity?

I passed a church this morning. Their announcement board thingy (you know, with all the plastic letters) had something like "Eternity is a long time to find out you were wrong." But then Billy Joel came to mind, "I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints." Granted he doesn't sing anything about infinity, eternity, whatever, but anyway...

[SouthernFriedInfidel]

It's odd how the injustice of the concept of Hell is always ignored by the pushers. Oh, they try to rationalize it, but the basic notion of a punishment that is infinite, in response to any finite crime, is not justifiable.

How can a finite person truly understand infinity?

So you admit that you support something that you don't have a hope of understanding. How enlightening.

[BecauseHeLives]

In the lake of fire it will be total darkness and there will no fellowship with any fellow sinners. For eternity. I seriously doubt there will be any laughing. Not good.

[Sanjuro]

In the lake of fire it will be total darkness and there will no fellowship with any fellow sinners. For eternity. I seriously doubt there will be any laughing. Not good.

Hey man, as long as you're not there it cant be all bad.

[Liv]

For eternity.

Now, I watched Nat. Geo or something, and Eternity in Bible-speak is 3 years.... So that's not bad....

Oh... church out here says "Stop Drop and Roll doesn't work in Hell."