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Supposedly, it's a realm of endless torture, which in Dante's mind was related to the sins of the soul during the peroid of it's life on Earth.
Myself, I don't believe there is a supreme being. Why do I need a miraculous creator, created from nothing by miracle, to explain the miracle of creation?
Wrapping one miracle in many to explain the first?
Errrrrrr......
No. Causality is all I need thank you. Chains of cause and effect, whose ripples and interaction reach further and deeper than any being could hope to fathom.
The Origin is beyond our knowledge at this point, _all_ theories of it are just that. Theories, with no evidence to back up any claim one way or another. The only thing we can look at, is what happens after.
But, even if you believe in a deity, why would a creator create a sentient being, give it an apparent free will and then judge it at death according to it's actions. Without ANY concrete proof of either His/Her/It's/Their existence or His/Her/It's/Their wishes or preferences?
It'd either be a stupid God or an Evil/Vain God.
Hell is a tool for social control.
Bit mixed up. I'm drinking.
*gulp*
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"I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place." - Winston Churchill, 1937 --{ORLY?}--
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