Russell quotes about hell

glenster

Can someone please provide some sources of quotes of Russell's about hell as death? I remember he tended to force the choice between agony in literal fire and death, and that a kind God would make it death, etc. (I think an atheist might consider it kinder to go on living in apartness from God than be dead, but Russell seemed to skip that possibility.)

Some articles which explain the mainstream Christian view of the soul and an
afterlife:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartarus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gehenna
http://www.freeminds.org/doctrine/insight.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_in_Christian_beliefs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul#Christian_beliefs

greendawn

I think what you are trying to say is that hell is a kind of mental torment in this world, rather than a literal physical torment in another world, resulting out of a separation from God. The Christian concept of hell comes from the tormenting of the wicked in the lake of fire and sulfur.