Guilt, Condemnation, and Totalitarian Punishment

Guilt, Condemnation, and Totalitarian Punishment
A sculpture of the founder of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Lenin, erected in 1970 at Moscow Square in front of the House of Soviets in Saint Petersburg, on June 25, 2017. Mladen Antonov/AFP via Getty Images
Mark Hendrickson
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We don’t hear much today about the religious doctrine of damnation—the belief that everlasting punishment awaits sinners. How much of that is due to religionists moderating their theological views or simply the ongoing secularization of society is an interesting question.

Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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Mark Hendrickson is an economist who retired from the faculty of Grove City College in Pennsylvania, where he remains fellow for economic and social policy at the Institute for Faith and Freedom. He is the author of several books on topics as varied as American economic history, anonymous characters in the Bible, the wealth inequality issue, and climate change, among others.
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