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To: TeenagedConservative

All Protestants have been saying this for years. Now to get rid of the concept of purgatory, which would bring us back to the Biblical precepts of Heaven or Hell


12 posted on 10/09/2006 9:02:39 PM PDT by doc1019
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To: doc1019
The Biblical precept of "Paradise" or "Outer Darkness".

They erase your hard drive, you're out ~ gone ~ hasta la vista baby ~ ain't home no mo'.

That's not exactly the popular concept of "Hell" ~ and to be quite frank about it, the popular concept of "Hell" is more than vaguely reminescent of "The Demon Realm" of Hindu belief.

25 posted on 10/09/2006 9:12:09 PM PDT by muawiyah
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I'm sorry you feel this way. It would ruin one of my favorite anecdotes:



More than 20 years later, Michelangelo was called on again, this time by the Farnese Pope Paul III, to add to the chapel's decoration by painting the Last Judgment on the wall over the altar. The subject was well suited to the aging and embittered artist, who had been deeply moved by the horrendous Sack of Rome in 1527 and the confusions and disturbances of the Reformation. The painting stirred up controversy even before it was unveiled in 1541, shocking many Vatican officials, especially one Biagio di Cesena, who criticized its "indecent" nudes. Michelangelo retaliated by painting Biagio's face on the figure with donkey's ears in Hades, in the lower right-hand corner of the work. Biagio pleaded with Pope Paul to have Michelangelo erase his portrait, but the pontiff replied that he could intercede for those in purgatory but had no power over hell.


http://travel2.nytimes.com

Also, when I was a kid, my father and I took a trip to Pittsburgh. We passed by a house of ill repute called The Purgatory -- "not quite heaven, not quite hell," in their words. I was old enough to appreciate the humor. It gave him cause for a father-son talk though.


49 posted on 10/09/2006 9:54:16 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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