Who Will Go To Hell?

Of course there is no consignment to eternal torment in burning flames. That’s not a thing. But if there were that kind of hell, who would be there? For centuries many of us manipulated children, after having been manipulated, to think that pretty much anything related to sex would cost you your immortal soul. We believed that shoplifting, vandalism, even smoking and drinking could cause a generous Creator to lose his shit forever.

A loving God skipped his meds, and we would have, well, hell to pay.

I was bamboozled. Still today, too many humans think this way.

For good reason, we now understand that if torment like that exists, it is not about regular folks. Hell might be for Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz. Hell might be for Franklin Graham and Kenneth Copeland. Hell might be for Mirch McConnel and Tim Scott. (Don’t get me wrong. There would be women there, too). Righteousness demands some kind of reckoning.

A reckoning where Donald Trump would have vacations, not in Florida, but in Haiti or Puerto Rico.

All those who lionize hateful people, like Andrew Jackson, and perhaps presidents in general, would be found picking cotton or strawberries with bent back.

And yet people of true faith would welcome them to that Caribbean vacation spot and treat them well. They would seek ways to help farmworkers unionize and find spaces for the unhoused. They would love, anyway, because anything else would be hell for them, too.

“Then they also will answer Him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?’ Then He will answer them, saying, ‘Assuredly, I say to you,inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.’ And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.” (Matthew 25:44-46)

 

 

 

 

 

Brittney Griner

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