HELL

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Right. There is nothing to study, except the bible. And if you don't even take what it says seriously, you're just totally making it up.

I would rather Christianity dispensed with the whole Hell idea altogether, as it's the most evil idea anyone could ever possibly have. But they are stuck with this embarrassment of a book, and it's too late to just cut bits out of it and hope no one notices. So nice Christians like CL have to find reasons to think the nasty bits of the bible don't really mean what they say.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for it. Teaching a better version of Christianity is great. If eventually everyone agreed to just ignore any reference to hell as "metaphorical" and can the whole idea, that would be super fantastic.

Rewrite the bible. Please! More and more, people are taking it less and less literally and seriously. Just rewrite the fucking thing to say what people want it to say! The nice people, that is. Write nice stuff in it. The people who think it is the "literal word of God" are a dying breed. As long as people keep being told it is the "word of God", and it contains such horrific things, there's always the danger someone will actually believe what they are told instead of this nudge-nudge wink-wink not-really idea.