RE: What the hell is "hell"? why do humans go to hell ?
January 29, 2013 at 11:48 am
(This post was last modified: January 29, 2013 at 11:48 am by Cyberman.)
I don't necessarily see why there'd be a need for a prison equivalent in any afterlife that may exist, especially one like the various described hells that are bandied around. Prisons have several castigatory functions, ranging from punishment to rehabiliation and taking in isolation for the protection of society. However perhaps the primary, certainly the most common, function is that of deterrence in order to discourage people from engaging in whatever behavior is deemed illegal and worthy of such punishment. Unless the proposed afterlife is some analogue of this one, this sort of hell should serve no purpose. Certainly the hell as threatened ad nauseum by our believing brethren (and sistren) is intended as a deterrence for this life.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
