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[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 52 points 5 days ago (4 children)

As a recovering Catholic, it is doubly funny because hell is not even biblical.

[–] MrSelfDestruct@piefed.zip 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The renaissance period is responsible for hell and the visualization of Satan.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It was more the Greeks.

Yes a lot of how we see satan in iconography or whatever came out of the renaissance, but the idea of a place of torture in the afterlife has its roots in Greek mythology. (Specifically, Tartarus,)

That said, Jesus definitely conceived of a place of eternal torture for people who didn’t agree that he was all that.

[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Ah! I see you've read the Bible and like most people it led you straight to atheism!

[–] GutterRat42@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

How many cats did you have to make you finally realize you were Catholic? Did you have to rehab and give all the cats away?

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Didn't Jeremiah have something about a lake of fire or something or was that just the desolation supposed to follow Jerusalem, I am not the best bibblical scholar I just start cults for fun

[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Most of what christians mentally picture their afterlife to be was written by a 14th century Italian mad-lad with a chip on his sholder and an axe to grind with multiple popes. Its all sorta blended together these days.

Ill give the other abrahamic cults credit for their attenpts at maintaining a faithful translation or opting to not officially do one at all. Makes keeping track of who believes what easier.