"Can't you see they're already in hell? Hell is a place in life. In death, everyone is redeemed."
God, in a message to Bishop Carlton Pearson, as quoted in the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal. Pearson reportedly received the message as he watched a news segment on starving Rwandan refugees and asked God "how you can call yourself a loving God and allow [the refugees] to suffer so much and then send them to hell." Since hearing the message, Pearson has preached that Hell does not exist and has seen his congregation fall from a high of 6,000 persons to a few hundred