By Dan Burke and Patrick O’Hearn, Catholic Exchange - Jesus does not mince words when it comes to sin and to our eternal fate. Our King wears a crown of thorns to show us that “the wages of sin is death” (Rom. 6:23)—eternal death. And Christ the King will return to separate the sheep from the goats. The goats, the unrighteous, “will go away into eternal punishment” and the sheep, the righteous, “into eternal life” (Mt. 25:46)... Throughout Scripture, Jesus is direct, clear, and stern when it comes to Hell. This sternness is not what we see in the grumpy old guy who shouts threats at kids for running on his lawn. It is more akin to the mother who cries out with full voice at her small child as he is about to wander into traffic.