The Idea of Hell

[Leonardo17]

   One of things I also want to mention here is: Why are some people so damn serious about the issue? (I mean the issue of sin and then going to hell – eternal torture -)?
 
   Personally, I don’t like the idea of being serious all the time. And on a spiritual level, it’s a red flag. Do not trust anyone who is overly serious on his/her spiritual (or even political or philosophical) convictions. Why?
 
   Because none of us is that important in this universe. It’s as simple as that.
 
There was a movie called “The Next Karate Kid” (1994: Pat Morita + Hilary Swank):
 
Mr. Miagi takes his student (who happens to be a restless teenager) to a Shinto Monastery so that she can be silent and get in touch with her own inner realities. Then there is this scene when Julie Pierce (the student) secretly turns the music one while she is training (which is completely against the rules of a silent monastic retreat). Then the monks arrive. And instead of lecturing her about the rules of being silent in a monastery they simply start dancing with the music and say: “Never trust a spiritual leader who cannot dance”.