The Counsel of Trent #1135 - FFAF: The Curse of Immortality
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Feb 27, 2026 A free-for-all look at the downsides of literal immortality. He sketches a fictional model of eternal youth and invulnerability. He explores risks like being trapped or falsely punished and the legal dangers of never aging. He discusses emotional harms from endless loss, altered time perception, and growing culturally alien. He contrasts earthly immortality with seeking eternal life in a religious sense.
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Immortality Versus Eternal Soul
- Immortality in fiction often preserves youth and makes one indestructible, but Trent Horn argues this model is genuinely harmful if lived on earth forever.
- He distinguishes spiritual immortality (souls with heaven or hell) from fictional bodily immortality that traps you in earthly time and consequences.
Avoid Earthly Immortality Choose Heaven Instead
- Avoid choosing earthly immortality because unending life without God equals hell in Christian understanding.
- Trent Horn explicitly advises pursuing immortality in Christ (heaven) rather than a perpetual earthly existence.
Trapped Under Rubble Forever Thought Experiment
- Trent Horn imagines drinking an immortality potion and being trapped alive under a collapsed building, unable to be rescued.
- He uses 9/11 and building collapse scenarios to show immortality would leave you embedded in rubble for centuries until archaeological excavation.