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I'm pretty sure on this one....

Just a couple of thoughts on hell...

If God is just, and I know is a big assumption, then sins must be affixed to a specific punishment, (Penance Units).  Stealing a gum ball, 3 PUs, destroying Enron, 2,000,000 PUs, cheating on your wife, 30,000 PUs, writing a bad sex blog, 19 PUs, etc.  Each misdeed is only so bad,  and not any worse.  Killing a man, cheating on your college entrance exams, running a red light, cussing at the TV, eating grapes in the grocery store, are all different.  Each must be assigned their on PU value.

OK, to the bible tells us to repent, make restitution, do penance, beat ourselves with 50 stripes, offer a mitzvah, a sacrifice, or a broken heart.  If we do that while alive, we are forgiven.  Right?  But what if we don't?

Asking friends of various faiths gains me various answers, but must of them are like this, "You go to hell."  What is hell?  That might be a different post, but for many of us it could be staying right where we are, or it's the hellfire and brimstone or separation from "the divine" or maybe it's New Jersey (or Houston), who knows? 

So God sends us to hell to punish us.  My Christian background tells me that I just suffer as Christ suffered. But He suffered for all mankind, I just need to suffer for me.  Right?  I'm just one guy, with a specific number of sins and their associated Penance Units.  So maybe in my life I've built up a debt of 1,253,322 PUs.  That is a finite number.  I've only sinned so much.  Assuming the "just God" theory, I should only be punished for 1,253,322 PUs, no more, and no less.

So how can you tell me I'm going to hell forever?  At some point I've paid my debt, I've cleared my PUs, I'm done.  What then?  Do I just become a heavenly harp-playing cloud monkey?  Do I cease to exist?  Do I become like God? Do I start all over (oh fuck no)? Do I get my 70 virgins and a mule?  Believe me, 70 virgins may be heaven to me, but is it hell for them?  That's their penance, an eternity stuck with me?  They must have been pretty awful people for that punishment.

But back to the point, after I've done my penance, then what?  I know this isn't the "normal" kind of post for this blog, and I don't expect any answers and I certainly don't want any arguing, ,but it is Sunday morning, and this is is my Sunday Sacrilege, so I get to ask what ever I want, right? 

We will back to our regular scheduled programming tomorrow.