“Giving up Hell for a Year: How it could revolutionize our relationships”
If, by “giving up hell”, they mean “Reform your life and live so as to avoid hell at all costs”, then I’d applaud it (and humbly suggest that they raise the bar to be a bit higher than ‘a year’).
If, on the other hand, they mean “live as if hell didn’t exist, and try to muddle through by a mere humanist struggle to “be good”, then I’ll call this out as sheer insanity. One might as well say, “Let’s live as though gravity didn’t exist, so that people can learn to be careful around cliffs and holes for its OWN sake, rather than out of a craven fear of being hurt!”
It’s never a loving or kind act to lead people away from the true and the real.
“Every disease that submits to a cure shall be cured: but we will not call blue yellow to please those who insist on having jaundice, nor make a midden of the world’s garden for the sake of some who cannot abide the smell of roses.” -C.S. Lewis
Interesting quote from Lewis. I remember him saying “the doors of Hell are locked on the INSIDE” (maybe in The Problem of Pain?).