A rational explanation for hell?

[C Rod]

I blame Dante for the development of this bullshit notion. It took art-not science-to make hell into a full tilt nastiness, and that fact underscores exactly why the notion is pure rubbish. Aside from extortion and coercion, hell has zero value philosophically. It is a political expedient now.

Dante was writing a work of fiction and labeled it as such. In fact, the intent was political satire.

Jesus in the Gospels described a cruel torture where a rich man just wanted a drop of water as he was being cooked alive in the flames. Muhammad came along and created a Hell that would make Dante's look like "Heck" in comparison. Don't be too hard on Dante.

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You wont know till your dead so how are you certain when you are alive?

Memory is stored in the brain and accessed from it. Furthermore, memory can be lost if the brain is damaged, either through injuries, illness (like Alzheimer's) or simply old age. Like a damaged hard drive, some files can be lost if the drive is damaged or formatted.

Knowing that memory is lost from damage to the brain, what would be any basis of hope that memory would survive the process of death, which destroys the brain utterly?

A hope that the view of the dead and said body from the living is supremely different from the view of the One that never dies. I will surely die but what happens after that exact moment of loss of cognitive action in this world is a mystery to the living. It perplexes me that we do not know it and its mystery has been revealed to billions with never the revealing of its secret. Like Ace said it is very interesting and fascinating but i have to ask could it ever be understood could the secret ever be made known? Or is a presume nothing for the sake of convenience or lack of evidence?