Dr. Seuss should be taken very seriously!
>:C
Green Eggs and Ham was a gripping social commentary about racial discrimination and basic prejudice.
you are probably reading a revised version but there are some that say that there is fire and brimstone in hell. there are even some that say hell will turn your blood to ice. anything to scare the living stuff out of the kiddies. i go to a catholic school and when they did teach about purgatory (they don't anymore) it was like a place where you went to reflect before heaven. so basically it was like your plane waiting in the runway before you can go to vacation. that's basically why i don't believe in religion anymore, people change it so much you wonder if it was even slightly true to begin with.
Purgatory is never directly stated in the Bible, but it can be interpreted based on how you view a certain verse.
Interpretation, as Night Fox has pointed out, plays a major role in religion. For example, person A may read "Love your neighbor as yourself" as a literal moral, wherein you should measure your Love for others on a basis of your own self-worth and esteem; But person B may see it as a way to explain that Love dwells within all man and is to be shared between them (This isn't the best example, especially considering there are many more views, verses, ideals, etc. that can chime into it, but I think you get the basic point). That doesn't mean either is wrong, they just understand the same line in two different ways. Though there is rarely a single way to see something even outside of religion. Look at the Second Amendment of the US Constitution, for example. Or the symbolic relevance of Tim Johnson from To Kill a Mockingbird. Or dreams.
