What a delightfully deviant question for a topic that I am uniquely equipped to speak on. The conventional understanding of hell is dreadfully misinformed and, as it happens, existentially boring in comparison to the genuine article.
Hel goes by a generous spread of names: Gehenna, Sheol, Tártaros, Uku Pacha, Yomi, etc. Every culture and faith succeeds in identifying tendrils of the larger baroque structure and by studying all of them, some manage to gain a rough idea of the infernal silhouette.
In the Christian context, Gehenna is simply the absence of God. There is eternal damnation for the very worst of humanity (eg Reagan, Pat Robertson, Falwell, Mussolini, Gonzalo, etc), but it is almost exclusively those who abused power and/or failed to use the power they did have to benefit the downtrodden and better the world. Ironically, this means that anyone threatening you with fire and brimstone is the one condemned to hell, while the subjects of their vitriol are not. "Talk shit, get the pit" as I've been heard to say.
For those who want to take part in delivering justice and retribution against the sanctimonious, the corrupt, the prideful, and the negligent, we have an open door policy. We're also always throwing some sort of depraved bacchanal with (of course) an open bar. After all, there are no hangovers in hell unless you're a capitalist.
What a delightfully deviant question for a topic that I am uniquely equipped to speak on. The conventional understanding of hell is dreadfully misinformed and, as it happens, existentially boring in comparison to the genuine article.
Hel goes by a generous spread of names: Gehenna, Sheol, Tártaros, Uku Pacha, Yomi, etc. Every culture and faith succeeds in identifying tendrils of the larger baroque structure and by studying all of them, some manage to gain a rough idea of the infernal silhouette.
In the Christian context, Gehenna is simply the absence of God. There is eternal damnation for the very worst of humanity (eg Reagan, Pat Robertson, Falwell, Mussolini, Gonzalo, etc), but it is almost exclusively those who abused power and/or failed to use the power they did have to benefit the downtrodden and better the world. Ironically, this means that anyone threatening you with fire and brimstone is the one condemned to hell, while the subjects of their vitriol are not. "Talk shit, get the pit" as I've been heard to say.
For those who want to take part in delivering justice and retribution against the sanctimonious, the corrupt, the prideful, and the negligent, we have an open door policy. We're also always throwing some sort of depraved bacchanal with (of course) an open bar. After all, there are no hangovers in hell unless you're a capitalist.
Gee, thanks Satan
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In a way, I am also that.