" We require mass to be think about , but at the same time allow them know that we ’re all deadly and there ’s an hereafter to consider , " say Steve Vandegriff , who learn in Liberty University ’s theology school , speaking about the Southern Baptist college ’s annualScaremare . " We as Christians consider there is a paradise to hit and there is a hell to shun , and we feel that the answer is through Christ . "
Hell house are a deal like thehaunted homesdecorated to scare the wits out of people during Halloween season . The only difference is that they come with a distinct content : This is the type of hurt that you ’ll endure as a part of eternal eternal damnation if you do n’t leave that liveliness of sine and come out following the Christian path .
Just how intemperately a fussy house murder you over the head with the subject matter depends on who ’s track down it . A gruesome personation of a botched backwoods abortion that leads to decease and eternal damnation for everyone involved has long been a centerpiece of theTrinity Church hell housein Cedar Hill , Texas . Continue walking through the labyrinth of scenes and you ’ll finally get a heavy dose of thedestructionthat the megachurch say comes with being out as gay , get premarital sexual activity or bung the nursing bottle back before the legal age .
The Trinity Church outcome is running strong in its 26th class , and was the featured subject of the aptly named 2001 documentary moving-picture show " Hell House . " Check out the preview , which hold in some mildly graphic imaging , for that flick here :
The idea has origins decades earlier , however , on the campus of Liberty University . The ultra - Christian college in Lynchburg , Virginia , was founded by televangelist Jerry Falwell . locomote there in former October and you ’ll find student and towny lined up outsidean old desert household , look for the chance to get gross out out of their Bible - bumping boots by the goblins and graverobber and veridical - life sinners inside . More than 28,000 Halloween revelers , true believers and folks who probably just desire to know what all the ado is about forked over $ 12 a headland last year for a chance to get scared straight .
The folk at Liberty might very well have spawned the hell theater rage , but the general idea has taken on an afterlife of its own . That now includes thedo - it - yourself hell house kitsthat one church service in Denver is hocking for $ 40 a pop . Those packages let in a ready - madegay weddingscene that then scoot frontwards to show the loving spouses dying of AIDS and being whisked off to fall in Satan in the depths below . Nuptials not your matter ? Perhaps you ’d choose the " cyber - chick"multimedia package , plan to show off the ills of browse the WWW indiscriminately .
Liberty ’s Vandegriff says the school ’s version of the hell theatre is a kinder , blue and much less graphic one .
" We seek to have a residual of the fun chemical element of Halloween , but also have some delineation of death , " Vandegriff says . " It ’s not as in writing as some of the hell houses that are out there . "
Liberty ’s Scaremare may be more of a Christian - friendly obsessed place than a mystifying dive into the spirit of sin , but the attraction ’s website take a shit decipherable that the primary pointedness remains represent a spiritual choice for citizenry to make .
" Ironically , this House of Death point to the Way of Life ! " it reads .
