RE: The Abrahamic religions and burning
May 11, 2012 at 4:51 pm
(This post was last modified: May 11, 2012 at 4:55 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Limited tools available in the lifetimes of those who authored the tales. Consider that the flames of hell-fire and judgement had largely morphed into nuclear apocalypse by our lifetimes. Burning once ranked as one of (if not the most) violent and painful way to go. We've since advanced our ability to inflict pain upon each other, beliefs have shifted accordingly (though for many, that long lived and ancestral fear/fixation with the flame remains).
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