Archived Discussion Main / Hell

This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.

Roland: While I admire the troper's bravery, isn't this vaguely Take That!-ish?

Caswin: Oh, yes, it certainly is. I'm not even sure if it qualifies as "vague."

Kilyle: Yeah, would like to see this fleshed out and given some examples of how this is shown in media. Assuming it is... because it's possible that almost all media versions are The Theme Park Version, that is, the opposite of Fluffy Cloud Heaven.

BritBllt: It may be presumptious, but I'll try to tackle rewriting it more objectively, and adding a few trope examples. Not all of them, not even most of them (it'd take forever!), but at least it'll be a good start for the article so other people can add more later.

BritBllt: Done!

Spectre Agent: Changed the line: "Many evangelical Christians believe that Hell is the literal, hollow [[Science Is Wrong center of the Earth]] filled with evil spirits." I have known evangelicals all my life and such a view is not held by mainstream fundamentalist thought. On the contrary, fundamentalists take the Bible as the literal word of God which tends to mean they know scripture very well. As Hell is never actually mentioned as being underground in the Bible, this view would have more to do with stereotypes than anything else.

BritBllt: I added that line to begin with and, while I'll leave it out, I grew up attending a Southern Baptist church, and that is the position the denomination holds - the Bible is literally true, and Hell really is beneath the Earth. As for it being beneath the Earth, literalists (at least, the ones who take it that far) usually take that from the references to the subterranean Sheol in the Old Testament. But anyway, it reads well enough as you've rewritten it, and that way it accounts for all sorts of interpretations.

Maybe a genuinely Biblical quote would work well, but leaving it be for now.

(And they're now added to the quote page. ^^)