‘Embracing Violence’

On hell and the damaging impact violent beliefs have upon our souls

I realized something recently while lying awake in bed, fighting a tired-but-wide-awake-jetlagged-mind: It’s been a long time since I’ve had a nightmare about hell. 

Not so long ago, my unconscious landscape was one of terror, rising flames, scorched earth. Every night I’d slip deep into a violent netherworld where death and endless torment haunted me. I…