If You Won T Burn In Hell By Abani

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"If you burn here, you won't burn in hell. God is reasonable" this quote probably is the most important line in the Abani's piece. This line is important and powerful because it shows the people in the village are superstitious and under control by religious belief. In my own opinion, this means that the people of the village believe what they did is to release and extricate the young man from a predicament, for them as a believer what they doing is helping the God to make the decision, if we can burn you right now you wouldn’t get any punishment or condemn in hell. That is how peoples' behavior is in the village. The purpose of the quote is to indicate how the religion change and control people’s behavior, even though they knew it is wrong.

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