Does anyone go to hell?

[Lyzzibug ~Still Breathing~]

BunWat wrote: "I think I see what you are saying Kaput. We don't so much make choices as justify our own actions to ourselves after the fact. We make up stories about why we did things when in fact we are just ..."

I like it. Makes me feel better for some of my not so bright actions.

[Ian]

Gabby81 wrote: "These beliefs do give some meaning and logic to one's life as he/she is not demoralised by the thinking of a short/temporary life..."

It's interesting that suicide was only made a mortal sin when too many people started killing themselves to escape their miserable life on earth and get into heaven.
Heaven had become too attractive a proposition.

[Annette]

OK, so if there is a Heaven and a Hell, what about Purgatory - that wonderful idea of being in limbo, a kind of waiting room until you've worked off your sins? (And would this have anything to do with ghosts?)

[[deleted user]]

I thought Purgatory was only available to Catholics?

[Annette]

Wouldn't they have to let you in now, whatever your religion, for PC reasons?

[Ian]

Catholics are into Papal Correctness, not Political Correctness.

[Annette]

I was helping my son with his history homework about King John yesterday who was excommunicated - and therefore going to Hell - because he wouldn't agree to the Pope's choice of Archbishop. When you read stuff like that (old and new) it sounds purely political to me!

[Ian]

Annette wrote: "When you read stuff like that (old and new) it sounds purely political to me!"

Purely political, but not correct (as in good).

It is well known that the Pope stacked the meeting that awarded Popes papal infallibility.

Now that's what I call politics.

[Michele]

Sonia Johnson is a mormon who was excommunicated/shunned for supporting the ERA movement. I heard her speak once. She said "Do not trust anyone who tells you 'God told me to tell you' if God wants to talk to you, god will do it directly to you."