Re: Do belief systems evolve?

On 26 Nov 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] screwed up his face, groaned, pushed 
hard, and farted out the following message in 
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:

> Mekkala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> 
>>> Actually, there is no such concept [as hell] in scripture: eternal
>>> torture (as if God was insatiably sadistic) was borrowed from Greek
>>> thought in later centuries.
>>
>> Ah.  I see.  So, the "Lake of Fire" (the Bible's exact words in
>> reference to a place where Satan, his angels, and all those whose
>> names are not "written in the Book of Life" go) isn't *really* a
>> lake of fire...
> 
> Let's see now. Where did you get that from? Oh, yes: Revelation. The
> same book in which a literal dragon pelts the earth with 1/3 of all
> the actual stars, after which a literal giant hooker rides a literal
> scarlet beast--when she isn't sitting on seven literal mountains.
> 
> Um, what exactly is your question again? Sounds like you need a
> reading lesson.

Ok, so could you clear up for me exactly what the "Lake of Fire" is 
figurative of?

-- 
Mekkala, Atheist #2148
"When did I realize I was God?  Well, I was praying and I suddenly 
realized I was talking to myself!"
--Peter O'Toole.