Metaphor

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  by Douglas Black

  Created on: August 21, 2007   Last Updated: March 01, 2011

  When dabbling into the realm of a sensitive and diverse topic matter, such as religion, you already

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  by R.A. Scott

  Created on: June 11, 2008

  Dante gave us his version in the Divine Comedy. It's an image that has stuck with us throughout the

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  by Roman Del Bosque

  Created on: February 23, 2009   Last Updated: September 11, 2010

  Hell is only a metaphor, born in the only place possible–the human mind.  From this mind

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  by Phenix

  Created on: May 27, 2009   Last Updated: May 28, 2009

  Is there really a Hell for the evil doers, or is this just a metaphor? If you follow the advice of the

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  by Patrick Sills

  Created on: August 16, 2009   Last Updated: August 18, 2009

  Hell is a metaphor created by man to deter evildoers. Conversely, Heaven is also a man-made metaphor

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  by Richard Sprigg

  Created on: November 22, 2008

  The comment that springs to mind is that Hell is not a real place in the sense that Paris is a real

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  by Lucius Trae

  Created on: March 26, 2010

  "Hell is other people," to quote Sartre. You don't need to image a mystical place of fire and brimstone

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  by Barbara Stiles

  Created on: October 19, 2008   Last Updated: October 31, 2008

  Hell is a personal spot you create for yourself when your mind in racked with guilt, fear, or worry.

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  by Alexander Prescott

  Created on: June 30, 2011   Last Updated: July 01, 2011

  As an atheist, I look at religion as the way of children.  We tell children concepts of the

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  by Torin Ozbun

  Created on: February 16, 2011

  The evil-doers demise in the name of the lord is known as hell, in the afterlife they’re punished

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  by Mario Carini

  Created on: June 02, 2010

  Hell, as portrayed in Dante's The Divine Comedy, is a fable. While the Catholic church based its theory

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  by Kevin Olivier

  Created on: February 23, 2009

  From a religious and atheistic point of view, the undeniable truth of the matter is that hell, a place

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  by Saurabh Pal

  Created on: July 12, 2007

  Let us accept it. There is actually no place like Hell or Heaven. It is only a metaphor invented in

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  by Steven Newit

  Created on: March 07, 2011

  Religion is the mother of invention.

  A massive range of improbabilities and patent impossibilities spring

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  by John Graham

  Created on: April 10, 2008

  The Devil and Hell are metaphors used in ancient times to deter people from doing evil just as God and

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  by LaSal

  Created on: July 12, 2007

  Hell, of course, is a metaphor. How could it be otherwise?

  It is a place thought up by man, described

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  by Butterfly Philosopher

  Created on: October 29, 2010

  Let's get serious now. Can you, or indeed anyone, without question acknowledge that hell exists and

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  by Edward Corby

  Created on: July 19, 2007

  Most people now a days do not believe in Hell as a literal three dimensional location anymore. Hell

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  by Cameron Foster

  Created on: May 20, 2009   Last Updated: May 28, 2009

  When it comes to Christianity or Islam or any other religion, if you dare to ask tough questions, you

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  by Darrin A Yarbrough

  Created on: June 14, 2010

  Considering hell is never referenced in the original bible, it is very likely the metaphorical concept