To fundamentalist Christians, it is a place where people will be intensely tortured without any hope of relief. ... It is pictured as either a place of annihilation, where people simply cease to exist, or of eternal punishment. ... They view the concept of an eternal punishment for a single oversight, error, thought crime or sin during life is unjust. ... "How can Christians possibly project a deity of such cruelty and vindictiveness whose ways include inflicting everlasting torture upon his creatures, however sinful they may have been? ... The Roman Catholic Church teaches that punishment ...

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By the cessation of Mary's reign, Catholicism had been re-established with the support of an inherently conservative people. ... The people out of order. ... Even religion was not much consolation; the nation was divided on how best to worship God. ... Haigh suggests that Catholicism was a constant threat throughout the 1560s and it was "strategic and logistical errors" made by the seminary priests and the Jesuits, which assisted in the deterioration of the catholic threat. ... The genuine threat lay in that it gave foreign powers, most notably Spain, a papal license to threat...

• Word Count: 2170
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate