The picture above depicts graffiti scrawled in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in the 1970's. During part of my mission, I spent time in Belfast and its suburbs, areas heavily affected by The Troubles (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles).
While there, I witnessed several instances of street preaching--echoes of the violent religious civil wars turned nonviolent only recently. The sermons often included graphic descriptions of the afterlife, warnings of God's wrath against non-believers, and intense rhetoric and passion. On one occasion, I remember a man saying into a megaphone, "Remember this! The streets of heaven are paved with gold, but the streets of hell are paved with the blood of sinners."
