Underworld
Pub Theology: Underworld At our last Pub Theology night, I asked for topic requests and received one: an attendee had read in a devotional book that Christ “descended into Purgatory,” and she wanted us to explore and to explain that. The following are merely introductory remarks intended to kick-off a conversation about life, death, and what comes after. Let’s raise a pint and a prayer . The afterlife appears to be well-nigh universal. Every culture encounters ghosts. Every culture tells of realms that we would recognize as heaven and as hell. Every culture speaks of angels and of demons, if but under other names. These beliefs tap into core questions of reality and humanity. What is consciousness; why am I aware? What is the meaning or the purpose of this life; where are we going? And what of justice? If justice is to be found only in this world, then we must confess that it does not exist, and we simply cannot bring ourselves to confess absurdity. This life makes no sense without a l
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