Hell, really?
Why I don’t believe in Hell? Easy, look around yourselves and tell me, what do you see? Sadness, sickness, war, torture, poverty, misery, rapes, abuse… I could go on for hours listing a series of adjectives that would describe the world so far… The world to-day, but why go on? I’m sure you get the general idea anyway! I am neither a negative nor a pessimistic person by nature but I have been asked many times before why I didn’t believe that hell could be awaiting our poor souls. To which I would usually answer that if it gets worst what is the point of going on? Why face it twice, let’s make it easier on ourselves: end this life so we only go through Hell once!
Don’t any of you get me wrong, I am NOT suicidal in anyway… I learned my lesson the hard way! I embrace life as it comes, for everything it has to offer. But I cannot believe in all good conscience that the worst is yet to come.
Of course many people when they hear me say what I say about the hysteria of Hell, they label me as an atheist, a disbeliever, an unbeliever, a heretic and at times, even a pagan. I have been told that I was disrespecting other people’s beliefs, no I am not! I respect that you may feel that once this life is over, depending on your behaviour, you will either go towards the “light” or the “fiery pits”. Fine with me if you do, it’s your right! But please do not call me all those things I have listed above because I am not! I am a spiritual person; I do believe that “life” goes on once this body dies. Even if I was to see it in a scientific way… our essence is pure energy is it not? Therefore energy goes on in to the next plain of existence. I believe in evolution as well, hard not to when we as humans evolve every day! But even if I do believe in the “big bang” that doesn’t stop me from wondering about all the “what-ifs” of someone or something pressing the “big bang” button somewhere along the line.
So to get back the Hell thing, let’s say that there IS a Hell after we die, where is it? Well many of you already know my old man was a Christian (the rather fanatic type too) and he would go on and on about bible stories. And one he always came back to was the one about the most beautiful and loved angel who’s arrogance made him to be cast out of the heavens, as he believed that his “perfection” should give him the right to his own kingdom (I’m sorry if I’m getting the story a bit wrong but it’s been years since I last heard it). Anyways, because of his arrogance he was cast out of the heavens to rule over his own kingdom, Hell, it was said that he was cast “down” from heaven… Well in my understanding “down” is earth and he was allowed to interfere with us in matters of envy (all that is seen as sinful), it is for us, humans, to use common sense and judgement in the matters of right and wrong. We do have freewill after all!
Now with that said what if the possibility of reincarnation was possible? Then wouldn’t that make the whole idea of Hell true? For example: you lead a shit life by behaving like an asshole then you die, since it’s the normal course of things, and because you WERE an asshole you are sent to Hell, which is here on Earth, therefore you are reborn in the hopes that you will get it right! Then it doesn’t get worst after we die, it only get to be the way YOU want it to be! Be the best you can be and your essence goes on to the next plain, be an asshole and you have to start over until you get it right!
I have read the beliefs of Indian faiths and Buddhists years ago and it does make sense when explaining behaviour of man and what their beliefs in reincarnations and how the two actually complete each other. I find this logical. Of course I’m fully aware that I’m being very general when explaining my views on the subject. But I'm sure you who reads this article will understand what I’m trying to say.
What got me started on writing this to-day is a video I saw this morning on Facebook about a terminally ill boy called Connor Michalek, he had one wish and it was to go to Wrestle Mania. He did, but not so long after he passed away. A boy! Why? Why a child who has done nothing would suffer of cancer? How fair is that?
And then it reminded me of the beliefs of Hell in various faiths around the world. And as I was watching this amazingly strong kid, talking like a wise old man, smiling in the face of what life had given him, I cried. Tears wouldn’t stop coming, my eyes had a mind of their own and I was not going to be the one to stop them, I cried even more. This little guy passed away this year, 2014, he was 9 years old.
I cannot in all good conscience believe that Hell awaits the wicked, Hell being explained the way it is, when a kid suffers all his/her short life. What did a kid ever do to have such a punishment? No I refuse to believe that it gets worst, as I said in many other articles here on my blog, I do not watch the news anymore, I can’t! The ugliness of the world to-day is more than I could ever dream to handle… Which brings me back to what I started with: It cannot get worst than what history has already been through, how we have and are still treating each other, how diseases attack the innocents. Hell is right here, right now…
Here is the you tube link to the little guy I mentioned,
“May your journey be brighter Connor” ♥
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqaWjmsSJUk