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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Just reading Christian authors, Dante, CS Lewis, Thomas Aquinas, St Augustine, for my Catholic mom book group. 
 None of them seem to talk this way about Hell, and when they do it appears pretty clearly metaphorical.

Plus there are tons of parables in the Bible about God finding his lost sheep, about God accepting those who have left with open arms, etc. it really doesn’t seem to me that a lot of Christian adults believe that God is trying to cast everyone who turns away from Him into a fire pit that He creates for this purpose."

That's a nice way of trying to make Christianity sound a lot more inclusive than it actually is.

If God accepts everyone, then what's the motivation for accepting Jesus as your Lord and Savior? What does salvation mean in this context? What happens on Judgment Day? What's the judgment that happens?

Do you see how your description of Christianity leaves a lot of fundamental questions in your religion unanswered?

A critical part of Christianity is preparing one's soul for Judgment Day. If I do nothing to accept Jesus, what happens to me on Judgment Day? Clearly something different than what happens to you, right?  [/quote]

Dante’s hell was fiery in the bottom circles. (As I recall—it’s been a few years since I read The Inferno.) The uppermost circles, though, were more about the punishment fitting the crime (some people were constantly running, I forget what they did, and if I remember correctly, the embezzlers were stuck in pottery “pockets,” etc). The top circle was just not having hope (of redemption). Then again, nobody takes Dante’s circles literally, and probably didn’t in his day, either. [/quote]

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