The whole notion of infinite punishment for finite transgressions is abhorrent. The Catholics tried to get round it by inventing purgatory. The idea was that if you were bad, but not REALLY bad enough for Hell, you could go to purgatory and people could pray for your soul. Purgatory involved physical pain, just not the eternal suffering of Hell.
In secular terms, let's say Joe murders his wife, but all Jim does is cheat on his taxes. If both die unshriven, Joe goes straight to hell and is pretty well fucked. Jim, on the other hand, might just have to spend 10 000 years being lashed with chains dipped in acid for knowingly failing to disclose the NZ$50 his neighbour paid him for mending the shed.
See? Catholicism makes sense!!
Boru
In secular terms, let's say Joe murders his wife, but all Jim does is cheat on his taxes. If both die unshriven, Joe goes straight to hell and is pretty well fucked. Jim, on the other hand, might just have to spend 10 000 years being lashed with chains dipped in acid for knowingly failing to disclose the NZ$50 his neighbour paid him for mending the shed.
See? Catholicism makes sense!!
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
