Sunday, April 22, 2007

The Atheist Arrives in Hell, Two demons attend

the atheist arrives, Armando Emanuel Roggio,Sr.'s line drawing from April 2007 copyright 2007

"The fool says in his heart, 'there is no God.'" Psalm 14:1 New International Version.


Okay, so I have never been accused of being an artist, but I had been looking at several illustrations this weekend and ended up drawing this scene of hell. I drew it with a HB4 pencil, then inked it with a very fine tipped sharpie and a black pen that I had from work. I then scanned the image and colored it in Photoshop.


I wanted to name the picture something, and started to think about hell, and got the idea to describe it as "The Atheist Arrives." I think that the shock of what hell is has lost some of its impact on the modern society. I see all sorts of articles which say something like, "atheists are not bad people," or "atheists are entitled to..." I agree with both of these statements. Atheists can be good people (in terms of how modern human thought defines good) and they are entitled to their beliefs. I just want to make sure that they understand that they are betting there is no God, and that if they are wrong there may (will) be a price to pay for their beliefs.


Okay, so now for the commericalism. Not knowing what else to do with the image, I made it into a tee shirt on the AERo Stuff Store.




t-shirt the atheist arrives





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