“…Hell is best understood as the condition of total alienation from all that is good, hopeful and loving in the world. What’s more, this condition is chosen by the d.a.m.n.e.d themselves, the ultimate exercise of free will, not a punishment engineered by God.”
“Hell is not a ‘place’ but a ‘state,’ a person’s ‘state of being,’ in which a person suffers from the deprivation of God,’’ declared La Civilta Cattolica, an influential Jesuit magazine based in Rome and closely tied to the Vatican, in a long editorial in July.(1999)”
Well, the Catholic church redefined hell as:
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“…Hell is best understood as the condition of total alienation from all that is good, hopeful and loving in the world. What’s more, this condition is chosen by the d.a.m.n.e.d themselves, the ultimate exercise of free will, not a punishment engineered by God.”
“Hell is not a ‘place’ but a ‘state,’ a person’s ‘state of being,’ in which a person suffers from the deprivation of God,’’ declared La Civilta Cattolica, an influential Jesuit magazine based in Rome and closely tied to the Vatican, in a long editorial in July.(1999)”
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Which, to me, sounds like “Life on Earth”….