I studied this in high school too. So I really loved the parody in Stella Gibbon's Cold Comfort Farm, when Amos Starkadder preaches to the brethren that they're all damned and will burn in hell.
"Ye know, doan't ye, what it feels like when ye burn yer hand in takin' a cake out of the oven or wi' a match when ye're lightin' one of they godless cigarettes? Aye. It stings wi' a fearful pain, doan't it? And ye run away to clap a bit o' butter on it to take the pain away. Ah, but' (an impressive pause) 'there'll be no butter in hell!"
Ian McKellan performed this role very nicely in the 1995 movie version.
And the band played "Waltzing Matilda"... I was recently present when a friend of mine heard this song for the first time and thought it was the most bitter and depressing song he'd ever heard. The site below has a transcription of the lyrics and a live audio performance with spoken introduction by Eric Bogle. ("I get quite heated about this subject.") The song says it all.
http:/www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/matilda.html
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