Accord­ing to The Age, one of the parties in the upcom­ing Israeli elec­tions is saying voters will go to Hell if they don’t vote for Shas. This con­fused me, ‘cos Jews don’t believe in Hell… well, not like that, anyway.

Instead, there’s Gehenna, a place where you get tor­men­ted for about a year to purify your soul before you can go to the good place. Its closest Chris­tian equi­val­ent is pur­gat­ory, from the concept of pur­ging. I don’t know what the Muslim equi­val­ent is because I’m ignorant.

Just a note…