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Hell?
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The belief in an everlasting place of damnation is a powerful image that has been an integral part of the spiritual mythology of the world since the days of the earliest Christian philosophers around 1,800 years ago. While it is a much more recent idea compared to the many beliefs of heavens and spiritual paradise of ancient non-Christian belief systems, the horrendous images of torture, fire, pain and fear evoked along with the threat of Hell have made it a major focal point for many Christian writers, preachers and systems. Even today, around the world, literally tens of thousands of Christian preachers regularly evoke the threat and the horror of Hell into the minds of their parishioners as part of their sermons. Far from a fading idea, the concept of Hell has enjoyed a revival of sorts at the end of the 20th Century with great concern towards the concept of Armageddon and Final Days. So where does the idea of Hell actually come from? Why? And what does it mean for people in the future?
It is her role of Queen of the lost souls and her universal appeal across several key European nations including Britain that attracted her as a concept to be Christianized.
didnt become loyal followers of Christianity, the religion created by Paul of Tarsus and the House of Ananus, the Jewish High Priests. Christianity succeeded in creating its first Armageddon under the reign of Justinian around 540 CE having spent over two hundred years systematically destroying every piece of knowledge, every practitioner of skill, every ancient temple and structure dedicated to wisdom. They had succeeded in halting all public works, all medical care, all education so that free flowing public fountains stopped, sewers became blocked, cities became breeding grounds for new diseases and death and eventually the greatest relative loss of human life in all of history. At least half of the worlds population died thanks to the Christian obsession in bringing about the end of the world under Justinian by the end of the 6th Century. Yet it was not the first, nor the last Christian induced End of Days for in the centuries to follow, more plagues and death through Christian promoted war has caused even more death.
A spiritual hell Contrary to Christian doctrine, there is no evidence that such a singular place of pain exists. However, there is ample evidence that individual and small collective hells exist.
Individuals that fail to resolve regrets and unfinished business appear to carry these problems over to the next world. So powerful are human emotions of regret and guilt that it appears it can cause a mind to be suspended between this world and the next-a kind of hell. Similarly, individuals who have lost their lives in war and tragedy also appear to struggle with peace until they have worked through the regrets of life cut short and lost love.
Hell on earth
All evidence to the existence of hell points to the human mind decision to make life on earth a living hell. Humans over time have done their best to make life misery, from war, from illthought building design and slums, from slavery, torture and sacrifice. Now to modern cities of grey and dull, and lifeless oblivion.
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What is exceptional about the history of humanity making life on Earth a living hell is that is can be traced back as an unbroken line of greed, messiahs, religions, kinds, power, lust to the very first civilizations of humanity. At no point through our existence have we stopped and thought it even possible that life on Earth could be otherwise hell.
Or what about places of great torture and evil? Do you feel that the souls who unjustly lost their lives in great pain and torment have happily moved on? Hell is far greater and far more complex and far more resilient than some organized prison network for "maximum cursed" souls.