(August 27, 2015 at 7:10 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Our understanding of Hell evolves with time. Of course, none of this is or ever was doctrinal truth, since we can't know for sure what Hell is like. But more and more theologians are explaining Hell more as a state of being than an actual, physical "place" with fire and little guys running around with pitch forks lol.
My point is, they react to pop culture. They have a very good sense of what isn't popular anymore and so they change it. That wasn't an evolvement over time, that was a rather sudden change. I'm 52 and for the first 12 years of my life or so, they preached fire and brimstone. Then, all over sudden, they changed their tune. It was the same pope, so not a different regime either. It was Paul VI during the whole period of time.
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