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I know where Hell is.
I am a Catholic, though not a practicing one.
Something occurred to me today that found me in a state of bother.
Heaven in my eyes exists.
Hell exists also.
Although, Heaven is a place where I have never been or seen before. We depict it to be joyous and beautiful and a place full of no pain or suffering, just true splendor.
So, automatically you would think that I would believe as part of my religion that Hell is a deep hole in the ground where Satan lives. It is a place full of fire and darkness. And anybody who has ever sinned in their lifetime or who does not believe in the Lord or Jesus will go to Hell when they die.
YOU ARE WRONG!
In my opinion, Hell is right in front of us. We are in Hell.
Planet Earth is Hell.
If Earth wasn’t Hell why would there be illness, why would there be sadness, why would there be robbery, why would there be rape, why would there be murder?
Many more awful things and people exist in our world, and I think there are some people in this world that make our society Hell for others.
For some, they live in Hell all the time. Think about drug addicts, homeless people, people who live in constant poverty who don’t even know when their next meal will come, do you not think that that is Hell?
You may have a different opinion, but this is just how I see our world.
Each one of us has evil inside of us; it is just unfortunately human nature. It cannot be stopped or prevented in anyway.
So when I say: “I know where Hell is”; you’re looking at it, you are breathing it in, you are eating it, you are smelling it, you are touching it, you are living in it.
We are evil and welcome to Hell.
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I don't believe in either place. At best I'd say Earth is a mix of the two, or a "middle ground" between what we see as perfection and what we view as "evil." Life is a mixture of both perfect moments and moments where we'd like nothing better than to 'switch ourselves off' for a while.
Hell, to me, is a place man imagined which encompasses all the negatives of life on earth- fire, torture by something you can't overcome, and that it lasts a long time. Heaven is the opposite. Instead, it encompasses all the good man sees in life (family, love, joy, light) into one place. And some people sit on different parts of that spectrum while they live.
If this is Hell, then who controls it? >:)
I don't know, Earth seems a bit too good to be Hell. You can't ignore the humanity that has occured. And it seems rather cruel to assume that everyone living here is being punished for something. What is it anyway?
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