(September 1, 2015 at 12:11 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Like the article explained, the catechism here is quoting Jesus speaking figuratively. [...]
So when Jesus says he will condemn evil doers - he means what? I can understand, that the fire and sulfur sh*t may be symbolic/metaphorical and hell doesn't LOOK like that, but how am I supposed to understand his condemnation - as a "figure" for what? However you twist this - his intent is pretty clear.
As I said before - you can interpret hell however you like, since it's a made-up place. The fact that catholics don't feel comfortable with the traditional vision of hell anymore, suggests that they're trying to adapt their BS to the modern times, which is probably a good thing... Or maybe a bad thing.
Give it another 50 years and - who knows - Hell may be abolished altogether...
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw