Immortality is a concept that has been explored in fiction for centuries, millennia, really.

And I want to talk about it today here on Free For All Friday, really the downsides of it.

And why if a genie, a person who works at an odd emporium of magical artifacts gives you a potion to live forever,

you should turn around and walk the other.

Don't just walk, run in the other direction.

Don't take that deal.

It's always going to be a bad deal.

That is what we're discussing today here on Free For All Friday.

Welcome Mondays and Wednesdays we talk apologetics and theology.

But Friday, we talk about whatever I want to talk about.

And today I'm talking about the curse

of immortality. So imagine that you could live forever. Would you take that bed? There are a lot of

people who might do that if they didn't think about it really well. Now, as a caveat, though,

as a faithful Catholic, I know one that all of us are actually immortal. We have

immortal souls, and we will have an endless life ahead of us. The question is, do you want that

life to be with God or without God? If that life is with God, who is perfect being itself, infinite

and love, goodness, power, and knowledge, what we call that kind of life heaven.

If you have that unending life without God, we call that hell. Now, a lot of people think of hell is, you know, fire and flames and people in red tights poking with a pitchfork. And there's imagery

that's used of hell in scripture. We have to be careful about that imagery not being stretched

too literally. Because honestly, when I think about immortality, if you wanted to create a hellish experience

to someone, just let them live a life on earth that is immortal.

That would truly be hellish.

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