Deprogramming Jessica

Thoughts on hell: Follow me here. Let's overlook for a second the notion of infinite torture for finite crimes. If we go to hell when we die and hell is the place described in Dante's Inferno (the perception of hell, since aside from 'lake of fire' there's not much actual description of hell in the Bible), then what about us is being tortured? How can we "burn for eternity" without a body or a brain with pain receptors and nerves to feel and process pain?  If I am actually a spirit floating around as an orb or whatever, I am not going to 'feel' things because I wouldn't have a body with which to experience senses. I wouldn't have the ability to smell or to feel things like hot and cold. How is something that's not in a vessel going to experience the pain of hell? You wouldn't be able to... You'd need a body for that, there sport. Many scholars agree that the word hell in the Bible is a translation of two different words and that...

I attended a funeral today, for an uncle of a good friend of mine. I know this family well and I knew this uncle. In fact, I have stayed with this uncle and his wife on a couple of separate occasions. Great people. Attending this funeral brought me back inside the walls of the church I grew up in. The church where all of my religious trauma resides. It was an interesting experience, sitting though that service, alone in a pew in the back of the familiar sanctuary.  There was a lot of emotion at this funeral. People were very somber. I have no problem with the idea of people taking comfort in the idea that a person's soul exists beyond the earthly body. I know that as ego driven humans, we really like the idea of NOT ceasing to exist after this life, especially when there has been a high degree of suffering.  What I noticed that I DO take issue with is, a clergy person trying to use the emotionally fragile and vulnerable state of grief as a recruitment tool. Using it as a manip...