(October 28, 2023 at 9:37 pm)Barry Wrote:(October 28, 2023 at 8:08 pm)LinuxGal Wrote: They assume the atheist forums are mission territory, like North Korea or some shit, and no one here came out of a religious background.
I’ve answered that. See below. The whole world is Mission territory. The fact that many atheists come from a religious background is irrelevant.
1035 The teaching of the Church affirms the existence of hell and its eternity. Immediately after death the souls of those who die in a state of mortal sin descend into hell, where they suffer the punishments of hell, "eternal fire."
you conveniently left out the bit about hell being “eternal separation from God” and ignored the apostrophes which show “eternal fire” is clearly a metaphor.
Yo Barry,
Can you explain how souls "go" anywhere after death "immediately" BOTH spatial and temporal concepts, ... in an eternal (timeless) environment.
You've got to be shitting me.
No one cares what your Catechism says. We know when the "hell" thing entered Christian dogma, (ie when they made it up).
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell 
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