Hell’s doors: locked on the inside

I’ve noticed that a lot of dis­cus­sions tend to talk about “the damned” (for lack of a bet­ter phrase) with­out actu­ally talk­ing about them. That is to say that on the one hand, we argue over the exis­tence of Hell, and if it does exist, what kind of God would pos­si­bly cre­ate such a place. On the other hand, when we talk about the souls of those who will pop­u­late Hell we make a par­tic­u­lar assump­tion: they don’t... Read More

Apologist’s Evening Prayer

I just fin­ished Peter Kreeft’s Heaven and Hell, and he closes the book with a piece of poetry writ­ten by C.S. Lewis. I’m sur­prised I haven’t come across this before, the admirer of Lewis that I am (I’m told its from his book Reflec­tions on the Psalms). He seems to be say­ing that there is a cer­tain dan­ger in intel­lec­tual argu­ments and log­i­cal proofs for God’s exis­tence. Namely, that such things may very well deaden... Read More