Hell

[Carnage251]

[miscsoc]

1. hell

[skeptical cynic]

2. Hell is one of the coolest parts of being an atheist

No religion...no gods...no Inferno...

[MorningGlow]

13. Not just atheists

Pagans/Wiccans don't believe in the devil or hell either. :)

[Newest Reality]

3. For many people ....

this world/life is hell enough with no need for a reprise after death.

In fact, if I were to design a hell, it would be similar to this existence. Uncertainty would abound and money would be god. There would be plenty of pain and disenchantment. You would be told about heaven and hell and past and future lives with the notion that something incredibly better or horribly worse was to come after your stint in this swirling vortex of confusion and oneupmanship. The mind and the ego would be abstract notions that lived on stories, make believe, and convenient deceptions all designed to extend the notion of being a forever separated, distinct entity something worth projecting into the past and future and preserving at all costs, even if that the effort and struggle to do so actually had no real, intrinsic purpose or meaning beyond the moment.

[raccoon]

9. Great post! nt

[Speck Tater]

4. Heaven is hotter than hell

From the THEOLOGICAL THERMODYNAMICS site: http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/hell.htm

HEAVEN IS HOTTER THAN HELL

The temperature of heaven can be rather accurately computed. Our authority is the Bible, Isaiah 30:26 reads,

Moreover, the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold as the light of seven days.

Thus, heaven receives from the moon as much radiation as the earth does from the sun, and in addition seven times seven (forty nine) times as much as the earth does from the sun, or fifty times in all. The light we receive from the moon is one ten-thousandth of the light we receive from the sun, so we can ignore that. With these data we can compute the temperature of heaven: The radiation falling on heaven will heat it to the point where the heat lost by radiation is just equal to the heat received by radiation. In other words, heaven loses fifty times as much heat as the earth by radiation. Using the Stefan-Boltzmann fourth power law for radiation
(H/E)^4 = 50

where E is the absolute temperature of the earth, 300°K (273+27). This gives H the absolute temperature of heaven, as 798° absolute (525°C).

The exact temperature of hell cannot be computed but it must be less than 444.6°C, the temperature at which brimstone or sulfur changes from a liquid to a gas. Revelations 21:8: But the fearful and unbelieving... shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone." A lake of molten brimstone means that its temperature must be at or below the boiling point, which is 444.6°C. (Above that point, it would be a vapor, not a lake.)

We have then, temperature of heaven, 525°C. Temperature of hell, less than 445°C. Therefore heaven is hotter than hell.

[DeSwiss]

5. Dan Barker, from: "Losing Faith in Faith"

"The very concept of sin comes from the bible. Christianity offers to solve a problem of its own making!
Would you be thankful to a person who cut you with a knife in order to sell you a bandage?"

[raccoon]

8. I'm in the middle of that book now! What did you think of it? nt

[DeSwiss]

14. Haven't read it yet, but it's on my wish list! ;-) n/t

[trotsky]

6. How can an immaterial soul feel heat? n/t

[raccoon]

7. So do the Southeastern states, in the summertime. nt

[iris27]

10. The idea of a frozen wasteland hell, ala the innermost layers of Dante's inferno,

would suck much more in my mind.

But then I am a freak who can get into a car that's been baking in the sun and go "Mmmmmmm...sauna..." :)

[JerseygirlCT]

12. Me too

Cold is much harder for me to take.

(But on the topic, I don't believe in hell - at least in the conventional sense. I think people can choose to separate themselves from God, but the door's always open so to speak.)

[Carnage251]

11. It's from the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

[trotsky]

15. Not quite.

The Pastafarian belief of Heaven contains a beer volcano and a stripper factory. The Pastafarian Hell is similar, except that the beer is stale and the strippers have sexually transmitted diseases.

Source: Wikipedia

[Carnage251]

16. LOL