(January 12, 2016 at 4:04 am)ApeNotKillApe Wrote:The demons and gruesome bloody horror aren't from the Bible at least not that I'm aware of, but tacked on for fear mongering by people to emphasize the most torturous imaginary place they can think of.(January 11, 2016 at 11:50 pm)Heat Wrote: I love how the bible, and every other religious text seems to go so in depth about god and heaven and how good heaven is, yet never say anything specific about hell a part from the general consensus that "It's a bad place", never anything telling you specifically how it's a bad place, and why it exists. Guess that's just part of playing in to peoples fear of the unknown though.
Really? I've always perceived the opposite, that heaven is often described in vague and nebulous terms while hell was given detail, particularly in works of art through the middle ages. Medieval heaven is priests and angels (all men) just standing around with Jesus in some dull looking city of sorts, while hell is pictured with gruesome, bloody detail with demons and fire and inventive scenes of evisceration and ironic punishment.
Which is better:
To die with ignorance, or to live with intelligence?
Truth doesn't accommodate to personal opinions.
The choice is yours.
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