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Today at 3:30 am, I saw a program listed on the TV Guide: "What every Catholic should know about Hell". WHY ?

Don't you know already??? How much can you possibly "know" about a figment of the imagination??? Just wondering... (What am I doing up at 3:30 am??? Simple... Practicing & perfecting my "arts"!) 殺生丸殿

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1. The Jesuit journal La Civiltà Cattolica observed: "It is misleading . . . to think that God, by means of demons, inflicts fearful torments on the damned like that of fire." It added: "Hell exists, not as a place but as a state, a way of being of the person who suffers the pain of the deprivation of God." Pope John Paul II said in 1999: "Rather than a place, hell indicates the state of those who freely and definitively separate themselves from God, the source of all life and joy." As to the images of hell as a fiery place, he said: "They show the complete frustration and emptiness of life without God." Had the pope described hell in terms of "flames and a red-suited devil with a pitchfork," church historian Martin Marty said, "people wouldn't take it seriously."
2. That would have been listed on EWTN. I plan to watch it.
3. Keep practicing! Perhaps Hell is a figment of your imagination as I don't know how much you imagine, but it's as real as life is to God. Remember, God's up there sitting in disbelief while just watching us perform the most hideous of actions and the most unthinkable things. To God, we must be pretty difficult to imagine as well !