# Does Hell Exist? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 27, 2002, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-hell-exist/105893 "2002-04-27T01:44:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kslider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@kslider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kslider)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-hell-exist/105893/1 "2002-04-27T01:44:29Z")
Just a question… ---
**Author:** ![Carm6773](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/2bfe46/32.png) [@Carm6773](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carm6773)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-hell-exist/105893/2 "2002-04-27T02:02:11Z")
Of course it does, I work there. ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-hell-exist/105893/3 "2002-04-27T02:07:55Z")
“ah but there is a hell, and I am in it.” ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-hell-exist/105893/4 "2002-04-27T02:07:56Z")
**HomeOfTheBraves** - you must be mistaken. Hell will be my appartment in a few short months. ---
**Author:** ![kslider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@kslider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kslider)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-hell-exist/105893/5 "2002-04-27T02:43:46Z")
OK…. let me try this another way. Have you ever noticed how Porn is a + Billion dollar a year business but no one admits they watch. 4 out of every 5 teenaged boys masturbate but as we were growing up no one had hairy knuckles. The Point In the bible an uncountable number “Like the sands of the sea will fall” (fall is the active word here, meaning Hell and/or Dead and gone). My problem with this is I am the only person I know that will be there in the future. Everyone else, AND I MEAN everyone has asked for forgiveness or does not need too ask. Basically this means in their speech and mind they are going to heaven and/or live forever. WHY AM I THE ONLY ONE? Going straight to hell AND WILLING TO ADMIT IT!!! ---
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-hell-exist/105893/6 "2002-04-27T02:56:58Z")
When I find the Internet’s Frenchmen I will let you know. ---
**Author:** ![DPWhite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d26b3c/32.png) [@DPWhite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPWhite)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-hell-exist/105893/7 "2002-04-27T03:19:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by HomeOfTheBraves \* > \*\*Of course it does, I work there. \*\* You work at the DMV? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-hell-exist/105893/8 "2002-04-27T03:39:24Z")
Ever been to Wal-Mart? ---
**Author:** ![whistlepig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/73ab20/32.png) [@whistlepig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whistlepig)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-hell-exist/105893/9 "2002-04-27T03:58:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kslider \* > \*\*Just a question… \*\* Yep, and it’s a place that only serves light beer, plays Irish folk music and has pictures of cows and cowboys painted by someone that ain’t Charlie Russell. I end up there every time I leave Montana. ---
**Author:** ![Daoloth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@Daoloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daoloth)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-hell-exist/105893/10 "2002-04-27T05:13:40Z")
Indeed, and it’s Astroworld during the summer. Seriously though, I don’t think one does. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-hell-exist/105893/11 "2002-04-27T11:03:45Z")
Does Hell Exist? Yes–it’s called High School. ---
**Author:** ![trishdish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d2c977/32.png) [@trishdish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/trishdish)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-hell-exist/105893/12 "2002-04-27T13:24:18Z")
I thought I was in Hell. Am I mistaken? I knew I should’ve taken a left turn at Albuquerque! ---
**Author:** ![Maxxxie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f14d63/32.png) [@Maxxxie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maxxxie)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-hell-exist/105893/13 "2002-04-28T10:19:10Z")
Hell is other people. Max 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-hell-exist/105893/14 "2002-04-28T10:27:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by trishdish \* > \*\*I thought I was in Hell. Am I mistaken? > > I knew I should’ve taken a left turn at Albuquerque! \*\* Yes, YOU ARE INDEED MISTAKEN…(and you should’ve taken a slight right at Albequerque) You are not in hell. Hell is located at MY house. ---
**Author:** ![Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-hell-exist/105893/15 "2002-04-28T12:03:27Z")
> [@](#): > > Hell is other people. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Hazel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@Hazel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazel)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-hell-exist/105893/16 "2002-04-28T13:00:21Z")
I have encountered people who counted themselves as Christians, but said that they did not believe in hell. I guess they think everyone goes to heaven? Perhaps on the grounds that “no one is all bad”? I wonder if anyone believes that everyone goes to hell, because “no one is all good”? I’m aware that many would say that one’s afterlife destination depends on what one believed, not how one behaved. Nevertheless, many Chrisitians do talk about a sorting process based on behavior. It seems to me that not all Christians buy into the idea that having the right beliefs gets you into heaven, and not having them dooms you to hell, no matter how good a life you lived. ---
**Author:** ![kumaraka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e68b1a/32.png) [@kumaraka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kumaraka)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-hell-exist/105893/17 "2002-04-28T13:06:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Hazel \* > \*\*I have encountered people who counted themselves as Christians, but said that they did not believe in hell. I guess they think everyone goes to heaven? Perhaps on the grounds that “no one is all bad”? > > I wonder if anyone believes that everyone goes to hell, because “no one is all good”? > > I’m aware that many would say that one’s afterlife destination depends on what one believed, not how one behaved. Nevertheless, many Chrisitians do talk about a sorting process based on behavior. It seems to me that not all Christians buy into the idea that having the right beliefs gets you into heaven, and not having them dooms you to hell, no matter how good a life you lived. \*\* Some very reputable philosophers, (Hick is the only name that comes to mind), have asserted that the concept of eternal hell has very little biblical backing. Instead, more of a purgatory concept is forwarded, only with more suffering. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-hell-exist/105893/18 "2002-04-28T14:44:27Z")
in H.G. Wells’ novel **In the Days of the Comet** , the narrator’s aged mther finally admits that she belives that Hell exists, but not that anyone will actually go there. I suspect that belief is in th back f the minds of most Christians – it’s pretty hard to square the idea of eternal suffering with just and loving God. Me, I’m an agnoistic, which means I’m guaranteed one-way ticket there. I can only hope that it’s more like the Hell of Shaw’s **Man and Superman** than of Dante’s \*\* Inferno\*\*. ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-hell-exist/105893/19 "2002-04-28T15:50:16Z")
Yes. > **[Hell, MI - Hell, Michigan Map & Directions - MapQuest](https://www.mapquest.com/us/michigan/hell-mi-283495761)** > > Get directions, maps, and traffic for Hell, MI. Check flight prices and hotel availability for your visit. Looks like Hwy 36 is your best bet. ---
**Author:** ![Koffing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@Koffing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koffing)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-hell-exist/105893/20 "2002-04-28T23:19:49Z")
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