Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-12-04

heinous as to deserve being punished
|eternally in a lake OF fire and brim-
stone AS to whether Mr.. Rowlands
disbelief in the eternal lake Of fire
and birthstone, Wnere the worm
dleth not, is correct or not, it is alb
solutely not, according to the Bible.
I know that punishment after death
did not enter the minds Of the writer's
Of the Old Testament, and l know
that Sheol had reference to the grave
J in the Old Testament and that ge-
henna, in Hebrew, is an appointed
place on the outskirts of a city where
i they burn the debris. 1t is only ma
] tural that persons living in an arid
hot country and believing in a venge-
: full deity would become impressed
with an "eternal' smoldering trash
! pile, and liken the place Of punish
ment for those that displeast their
deity unto a continuously burning
trash heap. Therefore, Gehenna must
have had something to do with the
technology Of the word hell as used
+, in the King James version Of the
New Testament. The EsquimauX,
directly opposite of the Christians,
believe that if they displease their
deity, they will be condemned to a
place OF eternal bitter cold, where
they will suffer the direst cold i'm
'aginable throughout all eternity
The Chinese have no after-death
places of punishment in their relig-
/ ious tenets. The Brahmins believe
that a person after death is raised
! to the level of paradise that is just
: due, according to his or her good
deeds on earth. The Brahaman re-
lligion has no abode of punishment
for persons that displease their
Great God Brahma." Ergo, it is a
very much more humane teaching
J than that Of burning and freezing
,eternally. Jonathan Edwards was
quite genius for soaring the wits
out of his congregations, including
little children, with his drastic tales
of hell-fire and birthstone Ere
quently members Of his congregation
would faint from the drastic depic-
tons from his distorted mind
AS for Mr. Rowland, l think he
should spend more time planting and
growing potatoes, cabbage, beans,
cotton, etcetera and not worry so
much as to whether there is a hell
or not. I am absolutely sure no such
place exists, and | can pride MIR.
Rowland in believing in a more hu-
name religion than the remainder of
Christendom. Mr.. Rowland, if you
are wrong and the other Christian
sects are right, you can at least say
to Jehovah: 'Well, God, l had a
more humane opinion Of you than the
members of other sects.'
Postscript, for Miss Addie Young: |
Even though | am verbose, garrulous
and bombastic, and utterly devoid of |
ideas and knowledge, l am at least |
not guilty Of the s'Crime of Silence"
Often have l dived into still, deep
water, and the deeper l got, tie
colder and muddier it got. have read |
Darwin, Huxley, Paine, Hume, In
gerson Nietzsche, Schopenhauer,
Pllny, Plato, Plutarch, Herodotue,
Emerson, and Edgar Allen Poe's "a
Little Learning is dangerous
iiilS Dut never before in my life
nave run across an erudite so re-
lucent as you, Miss Young. I know
you Will get free laugh as you class
tnis article jeu de mots; but the
6lole says: Judge not that We be not
!uoseo. FOR with what JUDGMENT ye
5uoee' ye shall be judged" But don't
let that stop Won
FR 49, FAT KNFP
henderson, Dec. l, 1889.
EDITORS Noto--r+ :; ,-~~od that
this will end tho c7i~o.,s~io,~ of re-
lle1on in the ''Othorc' Views, donart-
ment. Every one has the right to be-
ileVe or disbelieve the Bible as he or
she desires, and these lon~thv. ani-
mated articles are not CHANGING the
scripture and probably not the minds
OF those Whe read +ho,,N