What REALLY is Hell? (page 5)

Cygnus

My old phychologist wouldn't shut up about this common saying:

Religion is for those afraid of going to Hell. Spirituality is for those who have been there.

I'm not a spiritual man in the common sense of the term. Or am I?

Low-Key Lysmith

A concert featuring Brittney Spears, J-Lo, and Christina Aguilera.

heathen

hell is friday night with any beer .......................... or sex for that matter .................

Evanescence

To help understand the difference between a religion and a cult, firstly look at this thread

http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/96309/1.ashx

That has the 8 characeristics of a cult.

Get the book: "cults too good to be true" by Raphael Aron

The book talks about the difference between a religion and a cult.

As a Catholic I don't feel that I am being controlled by fear, you learn to worship God out of love and not fear. 'Be not afraid '

In fact if you go onto www.catholic.com and go onto the forums there, you'll see that this topic has been discussed a fair bit.

Once you have a relationship with God, you learn to not be afraid, sure the thought isn't all that great, but its best to choose not to dwell on it and be constantly afraid.

Religions help you concour death and the fear of death, cults generally pound it in your face saying "if you leave you will die!"

Catholism in particular as you all know rarely excommunicate, the fear facter is not used.

Its mentioned in the bible that there is a hell, lake of fire etc. We can't just choose to ignore it because it sounds rather disturbing.

religions don't teach about hell for it to be a threat, this topic is very controversial. It is a disturbing thought suffering for eternity.

But the teaching is not there to contol people with fear.

All actions have a concequence.....

Evanescence

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Evanescence

the_classicist

Hell is other robots.

What REALLY is Hell?

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