[boatbums]

NL- “Your mind has obviously been poisoned with Protestant threats of damnation. The souls cast into hell simply no longer exist, no fire, no brimstone, no nothing. The greatest punishment is an eternity without Christ.”

MM- That’s not what the Catholic church teaches in its Catechism.
It does not teach soul annihilation.

I agree, in fact, what our FRiend NL is espousing is what the Jehovah Witnesses believe. That souls do not face eternity suffering in hell, but are annihilated. It is also very curiously close to the concept of becoming one with the universe and losing all sense or knowledge of self - ceasing to really exist - that is held by Buddhism and Hinduism.

[metmom]

I agree, in fact, what our FRiend NL is espousing is what the Jehovah Witnesses believe. That souls do not face eternity suffering in hell, but are annihilated. It is also very curiously close to the concept of becoming one with the universe and losing all sense or knowledge of self - ceasing to really exist - that is held by Buddhism and Hinduism.

What's that about Catholicism having only one doctrine?

I wonder if he was taught that in some Catholic church where he was poorly catechized.