[Mrs. Don-o]

I have no problem saying that an atheist who dies in his atheism faces an eternal judgment in hell. In fact, it's almost a tautology. Hell is by definition a place where God is excluded by an alien will. God is excluded, therefore love, therefore the source of life and light, therefore all truth, goodness and beauty --- it's all excluded by a perverse obstinacy.

That's hell.

There are people walking this same earth with us who live in torment in a hell of horrors already within the confines of their minds. They have not "lost" their way. They have rejected the Way.

[armydoc]

There are people walking this same earth with us who live in torment in a hell of horrors already within the confines of their minds. They have not "lost" their way. They have rejected the Way.

And many who reject "The Way" feel no such torment; their consciences are perfectly clear. The Pope would have us believe that God will honor their conviction of conscience with boundless mercy.