(December 13, 2015 at 11:41 am)Stimbo Wrote:(December 13, 2015 at 11:33 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Ah I see what you're saying. Well hopefully my explanation of Hell clears that up as well.
Not really, because it's still relying on an opinion that a particular set of people are deserving of some form of segregated, exclusionary treatment. It doesn't even matter at that point what you think that treatment entails. As I said, it's the intent that counts.
It's not "treatment," that's the thing though. They're not being pained by someone else mistreating them, they are being pained by their own thoughts and choices.
It's like if someone is a huge bigot and just hates everyone else. That person becomes consumed by their own hatred and bigotry, isolates himself from everyone else, hates everyone else, and decides to live a lonely life of hatred and emptiness. In doing so, this person just makes themselves extremely bitter and unhappy, because as human beings we need love and companionship. But this person is too consumed by hate to open his heart to those things.
Does that person deserve to be as unhappy as he is? It's not a matter of deserve or not. If you hate everyone else and you isolate yourself, you're going to be unhappy. That's just cause and effect. Hell is the same type of idea.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
-walsh
