Those who talk of hell, and of saying the magic words so that they will know if they want to be friends with you or not, haven’t  interpreted much of the Bible in Greek.  Hell and damnation came into the picture around 600 AD, when the Vatican took it upon itself to re-write the texts that had been around a long time, and had not spent their precious hours threatening people.  If you are a Christian, you have to look at how Christ lived, and the second commandment, which sadly, has gone astray with the rich class governing the country for the rest of us.  If you are not a Christian, you probably look at those of us who are and shake your heads, with all the in fighting and judgementalism, even within it’s own churches.  The most peaceful group of people I’ve ever been around were Buddhists, complete and total pacifists, unwilling to fight or harm another.  When my dad came home from the 2nd world war, 3 years in combat, he was so fed up with the fighting, and people acting like he was some kind of hero because he killed, that he got rid of all his guns.  I never saw a gun growing up, and we never went camping, because he refused to live like he did in the war.  It’s a shame we can’t just stand up at the table and shake hands with those on the other side, and work together to make life better for the poor, and the middle class, who will be the poor in ten years.  Prayer, medication, walking, reading, playing with my grandson, all bring peace, but there needs to be something we are working on to help others.