According to the religion of Zoroaster, “Hell is the House of Destruction. It is the abode chiefly of the priests of bad religions,” that is, all religions except the Persian, but this is not to be taken seriously, as every religion is a joke. Here we have the original doctrine of the resurrection of the body, which our Christian ministers have had the consummate nerve to preach even here in this age of the world.
Mark Twain says in “The Mysterious Stranger”: “A God who mouths justice and mercy and invented Hell, mouths golden rules and forgiveness and invented Hell, who mouths morals to other people and has none himself, who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all, who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man’s acts upon man, instead of placing it where it belongs upon himself.” The trouble with Mark was that he accepted as true all that silly superstition, all those puerile fairy tales, all those black lies from the Pit of Hell written and taught by the old priests and prophets. God never created the human race, he never made Hell. This cruel remark of Mark is libelous, almost bordering on blasphemy.
Read what the insane Church Fathers said: “There in Hell the intelligent fire burns the limbs and restores them, feeds on them and nourishes them.”—Felix.
The proud monarchs and magistrates (and everybody but the Christians) shall liquefy in the fierce flames of Hell.—Tertullian.
We shall be compensated by a perpetual spectacle of our persecutors in an ever-burning Gehenna being devoured by living flames.—Cyprian.
Ling or the Word is the Commander-in-chief of the universe.—Clement.
Every sinner kindles for himself the flame of his own fire, and is not plunged into some fire kindled by another.—Origen.
The wicked will be provided not with the old earthly body, but with an indestructible body capable of holding out forever against everlasting fire.—Lactantius.
The whole mass of the human race is condemned. If we can pray the wicked out of Hell, we can pray the devils out.—Augustine.
Everybody, infants included, go to Hell, unless they are baptized.—Ambrose.