• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      It was more the Greeks.

      Yes a lot of how we see satan in iconography or whatever came out of the renaissance, but the idea of a place of torture in the afterlife has its roots in Greek mythology. (Specifically, Tartarus,)

      That said, Jesus definitely conceived of a place of eternal torture for people who didn’t agree that he was all that.