RE: Hell and the Play Nice Christian
February 16, 2015 at 5:29 pm
(This post was last modified: February 16, 2015 at 5:31 pm by Metis.)
Hell deniers are usually only found on the fringes of liberal and mystical (as opposed to hierarchical or scriptural) Christianity, more often than not unitarians, Quakers and of course the main source universalism. Also "Gay churches" (that is, non denominational churches like the meteropolitans that are popping up in major cities to cater to queers kicked out their own) seem to really hook onto the idea, I visited a gay christian forum once while I was studying to ask a question about an opinion of an interpretation of the Ruth and Naomi story and from what I saw on other threads I think only one poster thought hell was real.
I've also noticed a few lay Catholics saying things like this, and it seems to originate from a strange combination of latent humanism (most of the U.K espouses humanist principles, even if they wouldn't use the word to describe themselves) and losing faith in an organization but not the God it claims to represent. They believe with all their heart that God must be good, and when they turn their personal humanist-formed sense of morality on a doctrine like hell (which instantly appears immoral) anything that seems to contradict that image must have been made up by the organization that was either oppressing them or doing bad shit (i.e: sex scandals) on the side.
It doesn't really seem to appear in denominations without a major scandal in the Western world like Orthodoxy. Just my 2 cents
I've also noticed a few lay Catholics saying things like this, and it seems to originate from a strange combination of latent humanism (most of the U.K espouses humanist principles, even if they wouldn't use the word to describe themselves) and losing faith in an organization but not the God it claims to represent. They believe with all their heart that God must be good, and when they turn their personal humanist-formed sense of morality on a doctrine like hell (which instantly appears immoral) anything that seems to contradict that image must have been made up by the organization that was either oppressing them or doing bad shit (i.e: sex scandals) on the side.
It doesn't really seem to appear in denominations without a major scandal in the Western world like Orthodoxy. Just my 2 cents
