If Hell Exists, It Will Be Filled With Congressional Republicans

The Beautiful Mess by John Pavlovitz Podcast · Feb 18, 2026 · 5m

Growing up in the Church, I believed in Hell.

In the story I inherited, there was a place where monstrous people would spend an excruciating eternal afterlife suffering for the vile things they did in this life; a prison of their own making in which all the sins of their past would be visited upon them a hundredfold.

There would be no rest, no reprieve, no end. There would only be their continuous anguished cries and the assurance that no one was coming to rescue them.

As I got older, I began to see the idea of a destination of unending suffering as incompatible with a God who was love, and I…