Judas Iscariot- heaven or hell?

[susangail]

I keep thinking of the kids game telephone.You know where one child whispers something to another,then that one whispers to another.And how at the end you have something different then what you started with.Alot of things are like that religion is one.I'm sure in all religions it started out with one person telling another,so on..Things eventually get mixed up and turned around.

That's a really good way to put it. Religion is so huge but certain things about it are so childish.

[mrwynd]

well to put this discussion to rest, I have hard evidence of what happened to Judas! It's in writing, and it's old, so it's got as much credibility as the bible....


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante_Inferno#Ninth_Circle

"Condemned to the very center of hell for committing the ultimate sin (treachery against God) is Satan, who has three faces, one red, one black, and one a pale yellow, each having a mouth that chews on a prominent traitor. Satan himself is represented as a giant, terrifying beast, weeping tears from his six eyes, which mix with the traitors' blood sickeningly. He is waist deep in ice, and beats his six wings as if trying to escape, but the icy wind that emanates only further ensures his imprisonment (as well as that of the others in the ring). The sinners in the mouths of Satan are Brutus and Cassius in the left and right mouths, respectively, who were involved in the assassination of Julius Caesar (an act which, to Dante, represented the destruction of a unified Italy), and Judas Iscariot (the namesake of this zone) in the central, most vicious mouth, who betrayed Jesus. Judas is being administered the most horrifying torture of the three traitors, his head in the mouth of Lucifer, and his back being forever skinned by the claws of Lucifer. (Canto XXXIV) What is seen here is a perverted trinity. Satan is impotent, ignorant, and evil while God can be attributed as the opposite: all powerful, all knowing, and good."


So yes, Judas is in hell, and he's being chewed on by Satan for eternity! Fun stuff!

[susangail]

*Whew!* thanks for clearing that one up mrwynd!