Campfire Chat About Hell

[Cinjin]

Sitting at a campfire this Memorial Day Weekend, I got caught up in the following conversation:


Woman: I'm a Christian and I believe what I believe, and I don't care what anybody else believes.

Cinjin: That's cool. I do truly appreciate that sentiment. Be religious if you want - but allow others the same privilege. (offered a salute with my beer)

Woman's Husband: She wishes we'd go back to church, but I just think it's a waste of time.

Woman: Well, I think it would be a good idea. (She chuckles) Whatever, I guess I'll be the only one in this relationship going to Heaven.

**awkward pause with nervous laughter from all around**

Cinjin: So wait? You really do believe your husband's going to Hell?

Woman: Well ... yeah. He believes that if you're good to people you go to Heaven - and I think that's just not right.




Since I wanted to keep the atmosphere pleasant I didn't tell them that I think they're both painfully misguided and that the idea of Heaven and Hell is as stupid as Santa's Workshop at the North Pole and Captain Hook's Never-Never Land.

The conversation continued for a bit, but I wonder ... What would your response be to that woman's last remark if you were married to her?