Category: Heaven and Hell
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From McTaggart to Rome
Peter Geach, Truth and Hope, University of Notre Dame Press, 2001, p. 9: Soaking myself in McTaggart, I imbibed a desire for Heaven and eternal life, which of course I had not to abandon on becoming Catholic; and meanwhile I was preserved from giving my heart with total devotion to some less worthy end, as…
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No Eternal Punishment? Then Why Eternal Reward?
Suppose God exists and there is an afterlife the quality of which depends on how one behaves here below. Suppose that the justice which is largely absent here will be meted out there. And suppose we take as a moral axiom that the punishment must fit the crime. The question then arises: what crime or…
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Is Osama bin Laden in Hell?
Jeremy Lott, Osama bin Laden in Hell: To keep Osama's purported martyrdom from inspiring others, the point needs to be made, loudly and repeatedly, that killing innocent people is not the path to heaven. This will put the US government, and Barack Obama in particular, in an an awkward spot. It is undoubtedly a theological…