Pope updates hell

Good news, the Pope confirms that hell is real and eternal:

HELL is a place where sinners really do burn in an everlasting fire, and not just a religious symbol designed to galvanize the faithful, Pope Benedict XVI has said.

Addressing a parish gathering in a northern suburb of Rome, the Pope said that in the modern world many people, including some believers, had forgotten that if they failed to “admit blame and promise to sin no more”, they risked “eternal damnation - the inferno”.

Hell “really exists and is eternal, even if nobody talks about it much any more”.

I was getting nervous that maybe hell was just a figment of my imagination. As a Jew, I assume that the Pope probably thinks I am going there, but that is ok – I have been complaining about the cold for a while and hell will probably solve my problems – kind of like an everlasting trip to Miami. I can take that.

The bad news is that in October the Pope expressed issues he has with purgatory calling it “only a theological hypothesis” and not a “definitive truth of the faith.”

Bummer.

March 27th, 2007 General, Jewish Issues