Alētheia

    A few years ago I wrote a short piece on my Facebook wall about Hell and the lackadaisical approach the world has towards Hell. I would like to expound a bit more on that topic now.   What drove me to write the original post was the anger I felt after having watched an episode of one of my favorite TV shows. A show titled “BULL.” It was at the end of this particular episode when the title character, Bull, had just won his case in court defending a Catholic priest and they were talking on the steps of the courthouse. At one point the priest remarks to Bull “You know you’re going to hell, right?” To which Bull responds glibly with “Yep, already got my suite booked.”    Now that in and of itself is tragic enough but what followed next compounded that tragedy and really exploded my anger. The priest then just smiled and laughed. He laughed!  The character is a man who professes to believe in God, yet he finds another man’s frivolous attitude toward Hell to ...