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If our conception of hell was absent from Christianity at the time the religion was born, whence exactly does it hail?

The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. In 1927, Bertrand Russell , the Nobel Prize–winning philosopher, delivered a lecture entitled “Why I Am Not a Christian.” Later published in essay form, the work asserts something many people prefer not to consider: “ there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying… .” Christianity, Russell says, proposes a solution to this problem: the afterlife. The modern, Christian idea of the afterlife suggests that upon death, a soul travels to either

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