Hell might not be eternal

[Angrboda]

That's basically it, in a nutshell. People in, say, the fourteenth century can be forgiven for falling for the con; after all, theirs was a world rife with superstition. I genuinely can't think why anyone in this so-called more enlightened era, the information age, would wilfully chain themselves.

Children make easy marks.


I'm reminded of the tale of a bunch of disembodied souls standing around amidst the fire and brimstone of hell, and one disembodied soul says to the other, "You know, I don't think they thought through this hell thing..."

Why does hell need to be anywhere? Is it because we will be some "thing" that needs some "place" to be? If so, where is the some place where these somethings currently are, and why can't we find them anywhere around the actual living, nor any evidence of a link between my "some thing" and the bodily me that I know exists?

(Which always made me wonder, if Christ was resurrected with all his bodily injuries intact, is a woman with a blastoma in her brain going to be resurrected with maddening headaches and delirium? A person with bone cancer resurrected with continual excruciating pain? Maybe Christ was just showing off, as in, "I don't have to appear as I did in life, but I choose to do so for the sake of your belief." Which leads to some rather uncomfortable questions about whether Thomas' doubts weren't, even then, rather justified.)

And why does God need a starship?