Hell
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Robin D'Angelo's Racialist Hell July 03, 2020
Of all the people who have made cash in the past month, few can have raked it in like Robin diAngelo. Since the death of George Floyd, the white American academic and author of White Fragility has been absolutely milking it. A term I probably shouldn...
Is Hell Christian? July 03, 2020
I realized when I was around eight that the very concept of hell is insane and evil, and never looked back. I don’t regard this as an especially precocious perception—many other Christians I have known report a similar experience.I wrote the above se...
On the Logical Impossibility of Hell January 31, 2020
Universal salvation, argues David Bentley Hart, is more than wishful thinking. It is the conviction, expounded in his latest work, That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation, that no human being will be confined to hell forever, a...
In the Hands of Angry Gods May 23, 2019
JAMES JOYCE GIVES HIS READERS a taste of the eternal torments of hell in his 1916 roman à clef A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Toward the beginning of the novel, Joyce's adolescent alter-ego Stephen Dedalus sits through the fiery sermon of t...
Damn It All December 21, 2018
I think hell's a fable, the famous professor proclaimed—a surprising declaration not only because it was made in the late sixteenth century, when very few people would have dared to say such a thing, but also because he was at that moment in conversa...
