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William Crawley | 17:27 UK time, Monday, 9 July 2007

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never harm me? Think again. An Catholic school in Melbourne allegedly refused entry to a five-year-old boy because his surname is "Hell."

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  • 1.
  • At 06:13 PM on 09 Jul 2007,
  • Mark wrote:

In Grand Cayman Island there is a strange geological formation in a place called Hell. They even have their own Post Office so that you can mail a letter with a postmark from Hell. I visited there, I've been to Hell and back myself. Don't worry all you sinners, it's no big deal and some of the best people go there.

  • 2.
  • At 07:38 PM on 09 Jul 2007,
  • galen wrote:

This school has acted in a very abusive way

Will
You really must stop taking the piss out of Christians!

  • 4.
  • At 08:51 PM on 09 Jul 2007,
  • oneill wrote:

There's a very tasty Slovak beer which rejoices in the name of "Hell".

  • 5.
  • At 09:09 PM on 09 Jul 2007,
  • David Devlin wrote:

I think I've tried that beer. What a dreadful attitude on the part of the school here. Were the teachers drinking some Hell?

The school should have banned him with a name like that. I would've banned him myself. In fact it's almost an argument for bringing back corporal punishment. "Hell." Come on, now, you ought to change your name; let's not be ridiculous.

  • 7.
  • At 09:49 PM on 09 Jul 2007,
  • Darwinius wrote:

If he was my son, I'd change his name to "Jesus H Christ" and be done with it.

Thankfully young Hell is not a Proestant.

https://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/07/10/pope.churches.reut/index.html

Regards,
Michael

  • 9.
  • At 11:04 AM on 11 Jul 2007,
  • Bill wrote:

There is a place called HELL!

  • 10.
  • At 01:55 PM on 11 Jul 2007,
  • Christopher Woods wrote:

There are even two Hell's Gates in the world! One in the Caribbean and one in Tasmania.

Bill #9- That was the most entertaining webpage I've read all week. Thanks for that!!! You've totally brightened up my day!

On the Flying Spaghetti Monster website the (usually Christian) funda-mental-ists keep telling us to go burn in Hell. So one day a Pastafarian pointed out that Hell is a village in Norway:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell%2C_Norway

Should we go and burn there? Uhhhm...sure. Thing is, these fundies never offer to buy us plane tickets to the nearest airport. Or arrange ground transportation from there on. Also, the place is snowed under a lot. Hell is frozen over much of the year. Strange then that the fundies tell us to burn in that fairly unremarkable place where it may prove hard to get any fire going. So we wonder: should we bring our own dry wood or coal?

  • 13.
  • At 08:48 AM on 18 Jul 2007,
  • Philip Campbell wrote:

Is there a reason why my comment on this subject has not been included?

Philip- I wouldn't take it personally; like everything else which relies upon bureaucracy the BBC is quite butterfingered at technology and a huge percentage of the time it's very difficult if not impossible to post any comments at all! In fact you should consider yourself lucky to have been able to post the one you did. Blogs elsewhere on the web appear to have evolved quite easily beyond these technical glitches, but at the 'public service broadcaster' things aren't quite so conducive to progress. :-)

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