lillian on Nostr: i'm not really a purgatorial universalist. hell's fires are not correcting fires: ...

i'm not really a purgatorial universalist. hell's fires are not correcting fires: they are the unjust, miserable, pointless consequences of unjust, miserable, pointless dispositions of the heart. purgatory is something else: it's a gift, it's a chance to do the penances you could not do in life and by doing them repudiate the hells that you took on. purgation is the fruit of perfect justice, hellfire is the fruit of abhorrent injustice. we have to be harrowed from the latter by mercy to enjoy the former in justice