The two reasons my daughter will be sending you to hell

Today my eldest was educating me about God and how heaven works.

I thought I’d already figured it out.

Apparently, you go to hell if you aren’t a Christian. 

Or hurt the planet.

It turns out that climate change denial or lack of effort to avert the warning of the globe will result in damnation.

While I didn’t immediately amend her ideas about the end times and judgement, I did wonder where she developed the connection between hell and climate change.

Is this the level that the youngest generation equate with the issue of climate change?

It’s a damnable offence?

I assume that every generation has had a similar hot-button issue that they would project in a similar fashion (justifiable or otherwise), be it the aids epidemic, nuclear war, the civil rights movement, abolition…

I wonder if we consider the effects these globe-defying, civilisation-shaping generational topics have on the mindset of the young.

As they hear about the “next great calamity facing humanity,” do we consider the gravity of the message we are implanting on our most impressionable minds?

Should we be okay with any youngster thinking that any topic is on par with the destination you’re going to end up in after your dead?