Preachers are growing cool about the flames of hell. Few ever mention the subject from the pulpit says “USA Today,” which notes both Catholic and Protestant leaders want to focus more on hope and resurrection than damnation.
The trend can be seen in Catholic funeral masses where white priestly robes have replaced the former black ones and in a recent Church of England doctrine commission recommendation that hell be seen as “final and irrevocable choosing of that which is opposed to God,” instead of medieval fire and torment, the newspaper reports.
Some …