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Hell is a problem for theologians as well as sinners; to reconcile the worm and the fire with the Christian concept of a loving and forgiving God has been a perennial difficulty. In the Roman Catholic quarterly, Thought, Fordham University's Assistant Professor Robert W. Gleason, S.J., investigates Satan's kingdom in the light of modern thought. Says Theologian Gleason: "A combination of sentimentality, secular humanism and determinism have produced their own bitter fruit ... It is no longer generally believed, to put the matter bluntly, that man is capable of choices that could bring him to eternal death...
...Jesuit Gleason meets this problem by suggesting that the agony of hellfire is not something created by God at all, but rather that it grows out of the damned soul's eternal tension between love of self and love of God-and is much like the pain of schizophrenia. "We know that in this life the schizophrenic personality suffers greatly. Such a man believes that he is himself and someone else, [and] riven by this conflict he suffers as though devoured by himself. Now it is possible that the soul in Hell could feel this inner division with regard...
...very nearness and glory of God's love, rather than Divine wrath or vengeance, Father Gleason suggests, that tortures the damned soul. "Just as the sun without alteration to itself nourishes one plant and burns another, so the fiery love of God without change in God rejoices the saints in heaven, purifies the souls in purgatory and tortures the souls in Hell . . . The violence of the soul's tension in Hell is simply a tribute to the enormity of God's goodness...
...Godfrey's name into print for no other reason than to express contempt"), Allen's own rival Sunday-night Host Ed Sullivan ("His hatred of Sullivan is so pronounced that he cannot even bring himself to refer to his hour as a 'program' "), Comedian Jackie Gleason ("Initially, O'Brian praised Gleason. Eventually, he attacked him, at last so rudely that the two almost came to blows one night in a restaurant...
Kraft TV Theater: After more than ten years of fighting the ratings battle for Wednesday night, TV's oldest drama series finally got around to dramatizing it. Kraft called the play The Battle for Wednesday Night. But Scriptwriter Robert Van Scoyk, who used to write for Jackie Gleason, clearly fixed his view on Sunday night and its two warring clans, the Sullivans and the Aliens. On either channel the image was poor. Jack Oakie's ogling, leering Bill ("Hello, you beautiful people") Brogan was a gusty old buffoon eating high off the ratings when the opposing network decided...