If you’re saved, you now know all the things you have done wrong, or at least are in the process of realizing them, and asking for forgiveness.
Imagine dying and THEN realizing the wrong that you did, when you can no longer ask for God’s forgiveness. And you will exist in that state forever.
That’s the scariest thing I can imagine.
Actual flames might seem a better deal.
I should add that I am not a big fan of this pope. I do like his term “self-referentiality,” though. Never heard things phrased quite like that before. And his apparent belief that selfishness is what creates the torturing world around the sinner. He’s on an unusual wavelength.
The most Catholic person I know defends Francis by saying he never actually breaks any of the essential dogmas of the Church. I’m not sure that’s true—just quoting my friend. But even so, should he even flirt around with things that are near to doing so? Things that are not that unholy and seem to be said merely to give a person a feeling of still being a good Catholic and thereby keeping him in the Church?