{"id":967,"date":"2002-08-06T09:07:28","date_gmt":"2002-08-06T17:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/08\/06\/newsweek-in-favor-of-hell\/"},"modified":"2002-08-06T09:07:28","modified_gmt":"2002-08-06T17:07:28","slug":"newsweek-in-favor-of-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/08\/06\/newsweek-in-favor-of-hell","title":{"rendered":"Newsweek In Favor Of Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rel\u00ade\u00advant Mag\u00ada\u00adzine<\/a> brought an unex\u00adpect\u00aded arti\u00adcle to my atten\u00adtion. In Why We Need Hell, Too<\/a>Newsweek jour\u00adnal\u00adist Ken\u00adneth Wood\u00adward argues for the impor\u00adtance of Hell as an induce\u00adment for moral liv\u00ading.<\/p>\n

This is a side\u00adbar arti\u00adcle to the main Why We Need Heav\u00aden<\/a>, which is a dis\u00adcus\u00adsion of the rival Jew\u00adish, Mus\u00adlim, and Chris\u00adt\u00adian per\u00adspec\u00adtives on the after\u00adlife and the way they impact the news.<\/p>\n

I found quote par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly amus\u00ading: (Speak\u00ading of the Koran\u2019s promise of heav\u00aden\u00adly orgies) Georgetown\u2019s Voll doesn\u2019t think that the vir\u00adgins car\u00adry much weight with the Pales\u00adtin\u00adian mar\u00adtyrs; unlike the Ira\u00adni\u00adans in the 1980s, teenagers on the West Bank do have access to sex. More seduc\u00adtive is that you would have \u201ca house, reg\u00adu\u00adlar food, pros\u00adper\u00adi\u00adty,\u201d he says. \u201cYou would have flow\u00ading water; some\u00adone wouldn\u2019t be bomb\u00ading your well. If you had lived with\u00adout all that stuff for the first 15 or 20 years of your life, heav\u00aden would sound pret\u00adty good with or with\u00adout 72 vir\u00adgins.\u201d<\/i> Hmmm\u2026 I\u2019m guess\u00ading Voll does\u00adn\u2019t know any teenage boys.<\/p>\n

And of course, Ernest Hem\u00ading\u00adway wrote that he thought of heav\u00aden as \u201ctwo love\u00adly hous\u00ades in town; one where I would have my wife and chil\u00addren and be monog\u00ada\u00admous and love them tru\u00adly and well and the oth\u00ader where I would have my nine beau\u00adti\u00adful mis\u00adtress\u00ades on nine dif\u00adfer\u00adent floors.\u201d<\/i> Hmm\u2026 log\u00adi\u00adcal con\u00adsis\u00adten\u00adcy was\u00adn\u2019t one of Hem\u00ading\u00adway\u2019s dom\u00adi\u00adnant con\u00adcerns.<\/p>\n

The author buys some unfor\u00adtu\u00adnate inter\u00adpre\u00adta\u00adtions of the devel\u00adop\u00adment of the after\u00adlife in Jew\u00adish the\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy, and enjoys play\u00ading with the notion that both the sui\u00adcide bombers and their vic\u00adtims think they\u2019re going to heav\u00aden (and that their ene\u00admies are going to hell). Over\u00adall, it\u2019s a pret\u00adty inter\u00adest\u00ading read (if not a good course in the\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rel\u00ade\u00advant Mag\u00ada\u00adzine brought an unex\u00adpect\u00aded arti\u00adcle to my atten\u00adtion. In Why We Need Hell, TooNewsweek jour\u00adnal\u00adist Ken\u00adneth Wood\u00adward argues for the impor\u00adtance of Hell as an induce\u00adment for moral liv\u00ading. This is a side\u00adbar arti\u00adcle to the main Why We Need Heav\u00aden, which is a dis\u00adcus\u00adsion of the rival Jew\u00adish, Mus\u00adlim, and Chris\u00adt\u00adian per\u00adspec\u00adtives on \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cNewsweek In Favor Of Hell\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-of-random-interest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-fB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}