Hell

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Herbert Spencer, an English philosopher, perceived society as a living organism, a social organism that evolves. It is in this constant transformation that belief systems with unchangeable norms can hardly respond to society, because they are not able to change sufficiently according to the needs of human beings. A clear example is religion.

In its Latin sense, the term religare refers to the reconnection of the human being with a certain divinity or any other reality. Hence, religion fulfills the social function of providing meaning and giving hope in the face of adversity. However, just as it contributes to the development of human potential, it has the capacity to paralyze and even nullify them.

This is where the social construction of hell becomes relevant: the control mechanism used par excellence by the church. A place of punishment and condemnation where the reprobates will go at the end of their lives; a place without redemption, without hope. Hell is an exhibition that questions and answers those factors that are no longer in force in our society. It brings together graphic appropriations of symbolisms that today lack meaning. And it gives space to demonstrations that dialogue with a system of beliefs that has stopped giving answers to human beings.