Time Highlights Letter: 'Hell = Spending Eternity with Evangelicals'
Time magazine is so biased that it even slams conservative Christians in the letters to the editor. Former Newsweek editor Jon Meacham's piece on pastor Rob Bell asking "Is Hell Dead?" apparently drew only one letter of opposition worth printing. Here's the one Time put in bold, large type:
"Hell is easy to define. It would be spending eternity with evangelicals." -- Don Koons, DALLAS
Googling Don Koons in Dallas leads to a web site for....Judge Don Koons Mediations Services, where they promise "Judge Don Koons mediation services reflect many years of divorce and family law experience, understanding and a well known calm demeanor that helps people feel at ease."
Unless you're an evangelical, and then the calm demeanor and the ease go out the window.
The one letter defending the reality of Hell came from Valerie Stevens of Solvang, California: "Not only is he a loving God; he is also a perfect gentleman. He would never force anyone who hated him or his ways to spend eternity with him. Hell is simply the place where God is not."
The more typical letter, endorsing Time's point of view, came from Arlen Grossman of Monterey, California:
No wonder we can't overcome the serious difficulties that plague our country. While Americans believe in imaginary, unproven concepts like heaven, hell, God, and angels, they are ill equipped to develop the critical, independent thinking necessary to confront the challenging dilemmas we face. Heaven help us -- or better yet, let's use our reality-based imagination to help us solve real-world problems.
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Hell is eternal separation
Submitted by mattm on Tue, 04/26/2011 - 5:25pm.
Hell is eternal separation from the only source of anything good in the universe. It's darkness, pain, weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth - never ending regret... And God doesn't want anyone to go there, but sill they choose it... sad.
Would it be appropriate or funny...
Submitted by Tim Graham on Tue, 04/26/2011 - 5:37pm.
to say Hell is sitting around jawing about religion with Jon Meacham on a PBS set? From the genius who published cover stories on "The Biblical Case for Gay Marriage"?
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2008/12/09/jon-meacham-newsweek-...
I'm going with "both", Tim.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Tue, 04/26/2011 - 5:47pm.
;)
No sweat
Submitted by nkviking75 on Tue, 04/26/2011 - 5:51pm.
Hey Don, don't sweat it. You'll be in hell, but there won't be any evangelicals there. At least, no sincere evangelicals.
“Always love your country — but never trust your government!" -- Bob Novak (1931-2009)
When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.
Hell on Earth:
Submitted by Comrade Jim on Tue, 04/26/2011 - 7:34pm.
Locked in a room with John Meacham on MSNBC on a TV set without an off switch.
The Lord said that our very words may condemn us.
Submitted by Quasi-socialist on Tue, 04/26/2011 - 10:07pm.
And this guy could get his wish.
I don't really mind that they have this opinion, the drab wit of it is a little amusing.
And isn't Arlen's comment pretty redundant of "points" made by atheists throughout the last century? Hey, they can solve all the worlds' problems, believe us, it's just they have to solve this problem of people believing in God first?! Wasn't that kind of Marx's point too? And with a majority of slaughter having been done by Marxist in the last century, they really believe the first issue is believing less in God.
Hell...
Submitted by Chris Norman on Tue, 04/26/2011 - 10:34pm.
I think Hell would more likely be stuck for eternity in a doctor's waiting room (courtesy of ObamaCare) with nothing to do but read but one three month-old issue of a crappy Time magazine...
I don't think they realize
Submitted by redfish on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 12:01am.
I don't think they realize how bigoted that comment is. There are many annoying evangelicals, but many who are good people also.
Imagine a quote "Hell = Spending Eternity with Jews"... yeah....
Anyway, more people should read Dante's Inferno, its a perfect interpretation of the Christian concept of hell. You go to hell because you want to be there, basically.
Or, how about
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 7:13am.
"Hell = Spending Eternity With Black Separatists and Rev. Wright"
I'm just saying.
Not to worry..............
Submitted by Patriot II on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 11:42am.
Don Koons does not have to worry about spending eternity with Evangelicals...he is going to a warmer climate!!!
So Now We're Fact-Checking Letters To The Editor, Eh?
Submitted by TheReal7Sticks on Thu, 04/28/2011 - 2:17am.
How pathetic. First it's Saturday Night Live sketches, now it's letters to the editor. What are you going to fact-check next: Saturday morning cartoon programs? (Well, at least ones that don't have Captain Planet in them.) Like I said, how pathetic. In fact, if you ask me, that's what I'd consider Hell: spending all eternity with fact-checkers. Thank god I'm a secular Jew, because we Jews don't get to go to Hell. Toodles!