Excerpt from Thoughts on Things Psychic
Even in theological misconceptions there are grains of truth. The idea of hell and eternal punishment of "lost souls" obtains in most religions. Though the idea is largely due to racial hypochondria, it contains elements of truth. Evil is followed by evil. Man has believed that as moral laxity was in direct violation to the revealed laws of an infinite personal god, the transgression must be followed by infinite, eternal punishment; such has been the dogma of theology. Philosophy, however, corrects the argument of theology. It has dismissed the conception of infinite torture for a finite act. It has modified the theory of a personal god.
Hell is not a pit of darkness visible and of everlasting fire. The religious imagination has suffered psychical delusions.
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