I had a long talk with my catholic grandparents yesterday. They told me they don't believe in hell and neither do most catholic priests. I started thinking about it and realized that in my 19 years of mass attendance, I rarely heard the word hell. I started digging deep into my memories and the first time I heard of hell as a place and not as a "cuss word" was in 1990 when I watched the movie Ghost, with Patrick Swayze. I asked my mom where those creepy shadow people were taking the bad guys, and she gave me sort of a run down. I was 7 years old. I had heard of heaven and purgatory, and was always told that the worst people paid for their sins for spending eternity in the absence of god.
Luckily, there was no doctrine of fiery lakes in my childhood... then I might've been even more fucked up.
Luckily, there was no doctrine of fiery lakes in my childhood... then I might've been even more fucked up.
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