I want to call this discussion Sarte’s No Exit Purgatory. I was thinking about this play, as I am reading The Skeletons in God’s Closet: The Mercy of Hell, the Surprise of Judgment, the Hope of Holy War by Joshua Ryan Butler. In the book, his idea is to just have God exile the unrepentant. And Sarte’s play is about this:
Of course, to take this view, we need to look at Biblical descriptions of heaven and hell as metaphorical. But suppose this is the “punishment” for the univeralist perspective. Wouldn’t this as a purgatorial punishment - from a purgatorial or universalist’s perspective - be a fitting punishment, in and of itself? Thoughts anyone
Of course, it could be worse. Like that Twilight Zone character, who wished he was surrounded with people like himself (i.e. click on 19:30 minutes into the program on YouTube).