{"id":3695,"date":"2018-04-06T06:14:04","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T13:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=3695"},"modified":"2018-04-06T06:14:04","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T13:14:04","slug":"hell-pope-vs-doctrine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=3695","title":{"rendered":"Hell: Pope vs Doctrine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Question from RM:<\/strong>
\nWhat the hell … No hell ?? \ud83d\ude42
\n
\nI came across this interesting article: https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/our-humanity-naturally\/201803\/smile-there-is-no-hell-even-the-pope-says-so<\/a>
\nAs an atheist it’s amusing to me and it’s obvious that religion (in this case, Christianity) is trying to align with modern times.
\nSome theists who comment on this website are, however, moving in the opposite direction.
\nSo to the theists (although this is still ask-the-atheist) – why do you think the pope’s decided there’s no hell? Will he go to hell for this blasphemy?
\nDo tell. I’m eager to hear the rationalizations \ud83d\ude42
\n
\nAnswer by SmartLX<\/a>:<\/strong>
\nFew of the regulars are Catholics and therefore few may put any stock in what the Pope says, let alone have to defend the doctrine that his word is infallible and therefore accept whatever<\/em> he says. Even for Catholics the concept of Hell isn’t licked yet; the Vatican has claimed that the interview is a “reconstruction” rather than a transcript, so it’s far from official at this stage.
\n
\nStill, this was declared as a question for theists for a change, so feel free to comment and hold forth on Hell, the Pope, changes to doctrine over the centuries, or anything you can tie back to this interesting bit of news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Question from RM: What the hell … No hell ?? \ud83d\ude42 I came across this interesting article: https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/our-humanity-naturally\/201803\/smile-there-is-no-hell-even-the-pope-says-so As an atheist it’s amusing to me and it’s obvious that religion (in this case, Christianity) is trying to align with modern times. Some theists who comment on this website are, however, moving in the opposite direction. … Continue reading “Hell: Pope vs Doctrine”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[560,6],"tags":[111,171,254,721,777],"class_list":["post-3695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith-2","category-text","tag-catholicism","tag-doctrine","tag-hell","tag-pope","tag-pope-francis"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pB6tr-XB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3695"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3697,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3695\/revisions\/3697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}