Time and again religions have played a calamitous role in political conflicts. The statements of the Moscow Patriarch Cyril on Putin's war exemplarily show that Christianity can't wash its hands in innocence either. Therefore, the wide spread desire to abolish "heaven" and "hell", i.e., the division of humanity into the saved and the damned is only too understandable. If in the following contribution religion is nevertheless defended - including the idea of an "afterlife" and a divine judgment - it is done in clear awareness of the possible abuse of these topoi from black pedagogy to terrorism.
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Evangelische Theologie; 2023/4 Zweimonatsschrift
(2023)
Serie / Reihe: Evangelische Theologie
Personen: Feldmeier, Reinhard
Feldmeier, Reinhard:
Himmel und Hölle - Orte des Gerichts und der Rettung / Reinhard Feldmeier, 2023. - Seite 244-255 - (Evangelische Theologie) Ein Gott, der richtet? Die Rede vom Gericht Gottes einst und jetzt * 1
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