occult underworld magic

Spiritual burning.

Do you?
Are you sure?

Originally posted by xAlphaStarOmegax:

Spiritual burning.

Seconded.

If that makes you scared, that's the point. Remember that even at night, there still shines a light, whether you notice it or not.

Because "hell" is used as coercion to have a certain group of people continue to engage in specific behaviors that are beneficial to said group.

It's not real.

Body-soul-spirit distinction.

because that was meant to scare the enemies and populace of whatever militant empires made those religions, the real question is why are we regurgitating ancient texts

The terrorists who struck the World Trade Centre were so determined to die as martyrs and avoid hell they never once asked that question.

The doctrine of hell has done a lot of damage to the human race.

Originally posted by apathy:

The terrorists who struck the World Trade Centre were so determined to die as martyrs and avoid hell they never once asked that question.

The doctrine of hell has done a lot of damage to the human race.

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Originally posted by apathy:

The terrorists who struck the World Trade Centre were so determined to die as martyrs and avoid hell they never once asked that question.

The doctrine of hell has done a lot of damage to the human race.

They didn't just want to avoid hell, they would obtain like 80 virgins and a mule or something like that.

No wackier than the misadventures of jesus h christ

With soul-fire duh

I think it's more of a power dominance thing. It kinda makes sense that lucifer wanted to be the all dominant one. But he forgot who created him. So he is now eternally caged and is forever a sub. When compared to god who is top pup.

To be honest sounds kinda rad. Does hell have a rave scene?

Well, the most important question is why would Satan punish you for disobeying God, if Satan disobeyed him as well and became his nemesis.

I personally think Hell is exactly how its portrayed in Hellraiser Inferno: You basically live a story line that represents your sins. Taking yourself out only restarts the story line, There will be tons of symbolism that messes with with you over and over. But there might be a difference there might be a way to break the cycle by throwing away your ego completely and achieving Nirvana

The physical body doesn't need to be involved to experience anything. See eg hypnosis.