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. I happen to think that humans beat themselves up more than they would any of their fellow man. People know their own weaknesses and fears and they can create a much scarier hell for themselves than the bible could muster up.

To consider Hell a reality that "evil-doers" will have to face in the afterlife is preposterous. Especially when the basis of Hell is brought up only by certain faiths, some of those faiths reverting to myths over time. If Hell is real, then so shouldn't the Greek Hades be real as well? They couldn't possibly be in the same place, as both faiths are very different. Even if there was many separate Hells, what happens to those people that have no concept of that because their beliefs do not include a Hell? Which Hell would they go to? What if they hadn't committed any wrong act in their lives, minus being born in the wrong part of the world?

The one version of Hell that I keep returning to is Mary K. Baxter's that she so vaguely recollected in a "Divine Revelation of Hell". She claims that Jesus Christ himself came to her in a dream and gave her a personal tour of Hell. In this Hell, there were separate areas for different wrong-doers. These separations included special spots for those who never knew the word of Jesus Christ, for those who commited acts of Witchcraft or Sorcery, even a spot for fallen Christians...do you hear me? I said FALLEN CHRISTIANS. Christians too go to Hell, apparently. I couldn't believe that someone would have the audacity to think so highly of their religion that is could without a doubt surpass any other faith that could be thousands of years older than their own religion. If all this was real, then God does not play fair. Some of these people wouldn't have a clue as to where they've landed themselves and why they weren't able to acheive their oneness with the deity that brought their lives fufillment. The whole concept is just wrong and anyone who has the nerve to say "You're going to Hell!" also has a tremendous disrespect for history.

Yet, as we go through the new millenia we begin to see Hell, a real Hell all around us. Some of wish for more innocent times, recalling half a century ago there was no sign of the atrocities we face now. Some of us have paved our own Hell, filled with regret for something we had done in the past, no able to move on. Some people even create a societal Hell for everyone they come into contact with. When you've experienced earthly Hell and death ends up being a sweet release from the pain of living how could it be worse in the afterlife? The afterlife is sopposed to be a time of rest from the task of living, to give the chance to someone else perhaps who probably will manifest their own Hell later on in life. The reason why some people accept death with such prowice is to realease them from Hell. If there is a God, even still should Hell be preposterous to Him if indeed He knows everything that goes on daily on planet earth...God can't be that cruel.....can He?

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