“Do you think that there is rape in hell?” I asked Sarah. “What?” She looked understandably startled. “Rape. Do you think there is rape in hell?” “I don’t know, Rachel. I don’t think the Bible says anything about that. What on earth makes you ask?” “People say that hell is a place of eternal torture, right? Well, the most horrible thing I can imagine happening to anybody is getting raped over and over again for eternity, so I suppose it’s fathomable that people get raped in hell, right?”
I was terrified into salvation at six years old, because when a Sunday school teacher talked about eternal punishment I pictured my father whacking my bare bottom with his belt or wooden paddle, and the pain and anxiety never ending.
