If you’ve never seen Dogma, the movie isn’t for the sensitive. The clip does contain one naughty word.
I found this outtake from Dogma in which Azrael discusses the nature of hell. I think it should have been left in. It’s the idea that hell is bad enough, but it’s made worse by the misery humans bring with them into it.
Speaking of hell… Having again read Perelandra by C.S. Lewis, I’ve noticed something I hadn’t earlier. Lewis, when he was trying to determine which direction he should come out of atheism, considered between Hinduism and Christianity (though I don’t know how seriously he considered Hinduism, being more familiar with Christianity), feeling that either one or the other was the most developed expression of God in the world. We all know he chose Christianity.
Interestingly, in his depictions of hell (in The Screwtape Letters, in The Great Divorce, in Perelandra and That Hideous Strength) it resembles a form of pantheism. All human wills are absorbed into the overarching will of the devil; all personality is lost; the human is absorbed into the Nothing.
Kind of like Hinduism.
Lewis never comes out and says this about Hinduism, of course. But I wonder if he didn’t consider Hinduism to be the devil’s best effort at coming up with a counter-religion; and since the devil lacks creativity, it has to be based on conditions that the devil is familiar with. Hm?
Or perhaps I’m overanalyzing things again.