Religious PTSD: What can you do if you are afraid of Hell?

David Gamble
Science and Critical Thinking
7 min readOct 27, 2021

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Dante holds a copy of the Divine Comedy next to the entrance to Hell, the seven terraces of Mount Purgatory and the city of Florence, with the spheres of Heaven above. This fresco painting is by Domenico di Michelino (1465).

The topic of Religious Trauma is vast and includes things such as emotional manipulation, sexual abuse, and much more. Within this posting I’m covering one specific topic, a deeply rooted fear of Hell that is so potent it disrupts your life.

What can you do to cope?

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David Gamble
Science and Critical Thinking

Blogger and writer with a keen interest in science, skepticism, critical thinking, and many other weird and whacky topics.