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The Beatles, El Topo and infernalism as its own punishment

Evangelical Universalism
#1

Stay with me on this one, folks :smiley: :

The very last couplet sung by the Beatles, in the very last song they recorded together as a foursome, The End on the Abbey Road album - their epitaph, if you like - goes thusly:

“And in the end the love you take
Is equal to the love you make”

The director of the 1970 cult move El Topo, Alejandro Jodorowsky, once stated that “If you are great, El Topo is a great picture. If you are limited, El Topo is limited.”

In other words - and this is of course a gross oversimplification - you get the theology you deserve, and the God you deserve.

And extrapolating from this, might it not be the case that - to bastardise a statement made by George MacDonald on PSA (which has come up on Richard Beck’s current thread) - to believe in infernalism is your punishment for being able to believe it?

Or is that too much of a stretch?

#2

I would think that for those who believe in ECT, UR would be their punishment. Would like to see the look on their faces when they discover they were wrong.

#3

:laughing:

Oh yes, Dondi. Imagine the scene:

“Oh my God, you mean I’m going to have to share Heaven with all those Muslims and poor people and atheists and queers and Muslims queers and atheist queers and and and … Oh God, I wish I were in hell.”

And you will be :smiley: .