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Is Hell a Just Punishment?

Question:

Is hell a just punishment? I hear this question many times from skeptics, and that "No human being deserves such a punishment." How would I combat this claim?

Answer:

The Church reminds us that hell is the “definitive self-exclusion from communion with God and the blessed” (CCC 1033, emphasis added; see 1033-37).

For further perspective, see this previous response in which I explain that the fallen angels basically said, “To hell with heaven.”

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