What is hell? Is it a literal place of torture and torment? Is it separation from a god? Is it annihilation? Is there anything real behind the threats? Which religion’s hell should we avoid? What is this concept doing to people?
This talk was delivered to the Unitarian Universalist Humanists of Tampa Florida in April, 2016.
Top Pope Francis advisor Cardinal George Pell admitted that the Catholic Church has made “enormous mistakes” in dealing with sexual abuse allegations as he testified at a public hearing of an Australian investigative commission in Rome. Was Pell complicit in the church’s cover up of the sexual abuse of thousands of children by priests over centuries? We look at the Vatican’s lack of transparency.
From time to time we’ll see and hear atheists referred to as “professed atheist”, “self-professed atheist” and “professing atheist”. What does this mean? Where does it come from? Is it just a claim that we’re lying? Or does it tell us far more about the person using the label than the person the label is applied to?
h/t: Friendly Atheist
Always Question Authority 