On Anti-Infernalism in Popular Culture
The web-video shows “Hazbin Hotel”, “The Good Place”, and “Good Omens” preach a religious heresy that I call anti-infernalism: the belief that eternal Hell does not exist, cannot exist, and should not exist; nor should it be feared or preached, for moral and spiritual reasons.
These shows, and others, practice religious critique via dramatic art. They show us a fairly standard religious image, then take it at face value and set it into action so we can watch it collapse in a way both entertaining and thought-provoking.
Anti-infernalism uses reason and imagination to confront and defeat psychotic religious shibboleths. It is satire, which attacks wickedness and folly by reducing both to the absurd.
I have faith that it will be resisted.
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