"More than 45-thousand people have paid to go through the Abundant Life Christian Center’s “Hell House” – in which teens are depicted falling into hell by choosing abortion, drugs or suicide, or by engaging in homosexual activity.
It was started by the Reverend Keenan Roberts, who this year is starting a new church in the Denver suburbs."
Do you think this is doing anything to curtail the activities that the good reverend thinks will get you a one-way ticket to hell, or are they merely expressing hate for anyone who doesn’t live like they do?
I’d love to set up an alternate “Hell House,” one showing people leading good “Christian” lives, dying…and then being denied entrance into Valhalla for having failed the Aesir by not becoming warriors, and summarily cast into the frozen realm of the dishonored dead. >:)
I’ve always had the sinking feeling that if I had become a Christian, something like that would happen to me after I died.
Sounds about right to me. :> Then again I’m a practicing Asatruar. Of course Valhalla isn’t the ONLY place you can go, Freya’s Hall gets the other half of the fallen and every God has their own hall… who knows who gets what. Those who die of natural causes can go to Hel, in and of itself not too bad… Niflhel is the really bad place to end up, reserved for murderers and oath breakers.
Of course as a Polytheist I don’t deny the possibility that the christians might have their god and their heaven when they die, just as I have my Gods.
These “Hell Houses” are very common in my area. I watched a 10-minute “special” one of the local news channels did on this; they took a film crew into one of the larger Hell Houses. They’re basically like the article described. You walk by scenarios presented by live actors showing all the things you can supposedly go to hell for - drinking, doing drugs, being gay, having an abortion, wearing slacks (if you’re a female), contracting AIDS, etc. This article left out the best (and, in my opinion, funniest) part - at the end of the walkthrough, there is an actor dressed up like Jesus who blesses you as you leave.
I think, at least around here, these Hell Houses are created from a combination of ignorance and sheer hatred.
I can just see it now. Nestled in the local Hell House, between the rooms devoted to Drug Abuse and Abortion, is the Room Full of Women Wearing Slacks!!!
In the background, you can hear screaming and Wolf calls.
The walls are adorned with pornography torn from the pages of the J.C. Penney catalog and Martha Stewart’s Living.