How Stephen Colbert explained complicated issues like God and hell to his own children
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NPR’s Fresh Air, host Terry Gross asked how Stephen Colbert explained complicated issues like God and hell to his own children.
“I think the answer, ‘God is love’ is pretty good for a child. Because children understand love … My son asked me one day, ‘Dad, what’s hell?’ … So, I said, ‘Well, if God is love, then hell is the absence of God’s love. And, can you imagine how great it is to be loved? Can you imagine how great it is to be loved fully? To be loved totally? To be loved, you know, beyond your ability to imagine? And imagine if you knew that was a possibility, and then that was taken from you, and you knew that you would never be loved. Well that’s hell—to be alone, and know what you’ve lost.’”
Source: www.relevantmagazine.com/culture/6-times-stephen-colbert-got-serious-aboutfaith#TvOfBDTmqK954Qge.99
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