# Limbo...A Kinder, Gentler Gawd? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [November 30, 2005, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limbo-a-kinder-gentler-gawd/333363 "2005-11-30T13:25:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![VegaBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ee7513/32.png) [@VegaBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VegaBean)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2005, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limbo-a-kinder-gentler-gawd/333363/21 "2005-11-30T22:17:04Z")
Limbo is like hell, which in turn is like heaven. They are each in their turn inventions to explain away the gaps in prior religions. The tail gets more and more embroidered. Or one could say entangled, as in What a tangled web we weave when we try to explain our religion to one more level of inquiry. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2005, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limbo-a-kinder-gentler-gawd/333363/22 "2005-11-30T23:24:17Z")
> [@Mr. Moto](#): > > Until, of course, a Catholic attempts to hold to an umpopular yet theologically correct belief, at which time they will be dismissed as an unthinking minion of the Whore of Rome. > > Catholics don’t surrender free will nor the responsibility to seek the truth when the water hits their heads. That being so, that means many of them will be wrong from time to time. Only \*many?[.i] ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2005, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limbo-a-kinder-gentler-gawd/333363/23 "2005-11-30T23:28:34Z")
> [@Kalhoun](#): > > Only \*many?[.i] Mendel was right about genetics, so we are not all wrong all the time. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limbo-a-kinder-gentler-gawd/333363.md?page=1)