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On this Tuesday at Mass last Sunday, the gospel posited that a significant amount of people

will go to hell, so they might want to wise up before it's too late.

And a recent Gallup survey says about 60% of Americans believe in damnation.

Evangelicals leading the league on that.

The Catholic priest sermonized about the prospect of Gehenna, but gently.

These days the church rarely pounds home theological negativity, preferring to encourage good

behavior from the pulpit.

It's tough enough to get folks in the pews, telling them a fire pit may await, doesn't

make it any easier.

The hell thing, of course, has been around since human beings harness fire

to cook food and keep warm. Back at the first Thanksgiving, the Puritan sermonizers spent hours

threatening their flock with eternal suffering if their knee socks were too low or something.

Plymouth was a tough place.

In the modern world, miscreans are running wild, seemingly without restraint.

None of the 15 horrendous human beings we profile in my book confronting evil ever repented,

not one.

To me, it just doesn't stack up that a person can consistently

harm others with no final judgment or consequence. I hope that is not the case. Because if it is,

we are all living in a meaningless world without true justice. And that would be a hell of a thing.

Back after this.

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