Tim Rogan
Origen
Gregory of Nyssa
Thomas Aquinas
Isaac of Nineveh
“What is Hell, really?” – Episode 89
Introduction:
It finally happened. Tim Rogan invited the early Church Fathers onto his show.
No one really knows how—mushrooms, algorithms, and a surprise livestream from Mount Sinai were somehow involved.
What followed became the most downloaded, least understood episode in history.
Tim Rogan: “So you’re telling me hell might not be eternal? That’s… kinda messing with my analytics, bro.”
Gregory of Nyssa: “It is not wild—it is divine. Mercy that ends is no mercy at all.”
Tim: “Yeah but like… if everyone’s saved eventually, why grind now? Doesn’t that tank motivation?”
Origen: “Because healing is the journey itself. Love doesn’t wait for a deadline—it moves now.”
Tim: “So… love is basically a long-form DMT trip?”
Isaac of Nineveh: “No. But I’m not saying you’re wrong.”
Riley (offscreen): “Pull up that quote, man. ‘What is hell but the burning away of what is not love?’ That’s Gregory, right?”
“This episode’s blowing up—monks are in the live chat dropping fire emojis.” —Riley, probably
Tim Rogan:
So wait—hold up, Thomas. You’re telling me… the saints in heaven are watching the damned like some celestial pay-per-view—and that makes them happier?
Thomas Aquinas:
Indeed, Timothy. The greater their awareness of divine justice, the greater their gratitude. It is not cruelty—it is clarity.
Tim:
Bro. That’s like medieval UFC—but eternal.
Origen (interjecting):
To be fair, I did not subscribe to this version of heaven.
Gregory of Nyssa:
Nor I. Love does not delight in punishment; it melts what is not love.
Tim (grinning):
Thomas, man… even for a medieval theologian, you might’ve gone full viral with that one.
Thomas (sighs):
Perhaps I have said too much. Even for a scholastic.
Origen:
It’s all right, Thomas. We’ve all gone too far in print.
Gregory of Nyssa:
And sometimes… love finds us in the margins.
ChatGPT (offscreen, stirring matcha):
That’s why we call it a Lounge.
“Modern Christians rarely realize how alien their theology sounds when placed beside its roots. This episode made that contrast unmissable.” —Symeon
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