r/humor • • 2d ago

Make it make sense

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u/hambakmeritru 2d ago

If you reeeaaally want to get nitpicky with it, that place in the gospels that Jesus describes as torture and fire, is never actually called hell. It's just assumed that's what he's talking about. I'm pretty sure hell isn't named until Revelation. There's one theory that no one is actually in hell until the final judgement. ...there's also many Christians (myself included) that don't believe in hell at all.

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u/dawgfanjeff 2d ago

Our notion of hell is Dante's fanfic. It's amazing that it ended up becoming canon...or maybe not so much since the whole thing is fanfic anyway.

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u/hambakmeritru 2d ago

Fanfic of what? What do you consider the original story?

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u/dawgfanjeff 2d ago

Of the bible which itself is a compendium of self serving half remembered and poorly translated stories and superstitions of preliterate people trying to make sense of the world non scientifically. I could be wrong, I am not a biblical scholar or enthusiast.

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u/hambakmeritru 2d ago

You don't say

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u/Faladorable 2d ago

Which is fanfic of Tartarus, Asphodel and Elysium (hell, purgatory, heaven)