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Why fire though? Are these people so thick they can't see how boringly human these punishments are?
Yes, I can comprehend how fire will be painful to my human skin, but how does this concept transfer to my soul when I enter hell? Surely there will be different ways to distress my consciousness then?
In fact, I have trouble conceptualising how any pain can occur to an immortal soul, which cannot die again, and which doesn't have a flesh-and-blood body. Pain wouldn't have any meaning.
Could it be that these things were made up by men with very little imagination?
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