Back in my day, Hell was a lake of fire. But times have changed, and modern folks want a kinder, gentler Hell. Hell 2.0 is basically like putting yourself in Time Out...forever.

Responsibility for every soul condemned to Hell would fall squarely into the lap of the God of the Bible, were any of these beliefs actually true. You cannot absolve an all-powerful deity from something like this, nor does the Christian faith in its original form attempt to do so.

Here are seven reasons absolutely everyone---even those trying to believe the Bible---should reject the notion of Hell. And shame on anyone who feeds this horrific nonsense to children.

The Bible begins with a story disparaging curiosity and exploration, a mood it maintains for the rest of the book. But when you view the mind strictly as a tool of worship, you invalidate learning for its own sake. Free inquiry utterly depends on, well...freedom.

Virtually everything we are told Jesus said or did came to us from churches founded by Paul. As it turns out, this single detail explains more than almost anything else. Ultimately it was Paul, not Jesus, who founded the religion which eventually became the Christian faith.

A lot of prayers have failed to materialize over the centuries, but none so fantastically as this one. And as it turns out, this one was extremely important.

Do you know how many people the Bible says were raised from the dead on Easter weekend? Here's a hint: It's a more than the number of biblical scholars, even conservatives ones, who believe this story actually happened in real life.

Jesus said a lot of things which directly contradict what humanists believe, but composite characters like him say self-contradictory things quite often. Here were five times Jesus said things which modern humanists could have said themselves.

The historicity of Jesus is still up for debate among historians. But the historicity of Christmas? Not so much.

Exactly how much evidence would you expect to find proving that a poor, itinerant rabbi lived and died in an area of the ancient Roman empire which the authorities scarcely cared about? And yet we have a decent amount of evidence pointing to the existence of *someone* even if he wasn't magic.