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Perhaps it's a reflection of Christianity. It's the will of God that evildoers go to hell, to be tormented by other demons like themselves.
by psyc 9y ago
Perhaps it's a reflection of Christianity. It's the will of God that evildoers go to hell, to be tormented by other demons like themselves.
- cgriswald 9y agoChristianity? That is a stretch. Christians believe in divine forgiveness and some sects even believe man does not have the right to punish man; that doing so is doing God's job. Punishment as retribution is way, way older than Christianity. Are we hanging onto it in the United States as a relic of our (specifically) Puritan origins? Possibly.
- camus2 9y ago> Perhaps it's a reflection of Christianity. It's a reflection of Puritanism, not Christianity as a whole.
- psyc 9y agoWhat I meant is that it could be a manifestation of an archetype in the Christian imagination - the 5th circle of hell. I did not have any conscious implementation of a doctrine for dealing with punishment in mind.