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RE: I am about to ask a serious but utterly reprehensible question
January 31, 2017 at 3:48 pm
(January 30, 2017 at 4:46 pm)SteveII Wrote:
(January 28, 2017 at 6:29 pm)Astonished Wrote:
In all genuine honesty...and I just came up with this today, and someone making a threat about hell in one of the threads convinced me it has to be asked. Please, don't hate me, this is not done out of malice or perversion, and is simply a ghastly version of a reductio ad absurdum.
To any person who will tell a child that they are a miserable sinner and deserving of an eternity of fiery torment - regardless of how easy they claim it will be to avoid this (and remember, you still deserve it, you've just been given undeserved mercy via salvation, right? You're still scum but they let you into the country club) - what is stopping you from saying that child deserves to be, say, raped? Surely flesh-searing torment without end is a worse fate, and surely some lava-skinned demon down there is going to get their hands on you at some point, right? So why would you say one and not the other, if one is far, far worse and yet can't be experienced on earth?
I expect the answers will disregard the fact that we are disregarding salvation, and be flimsy excuses at best rather than actual answers. If this does not prove once and for all anyone who ever introduces the concept of hell to a child is no different from a predator, nothing will.
If this was a step too far, just delete it. I'm so disgusted with religious people right now, I can't even separate them from their faith.
This is a non-starter.
Why would any Christian tell a child he/she is a terrible sinner and deserving of an eternity of fiery torment? No Christian denomination that I know of believes that that child is accountable for their sins until some "age of accountability" where they can understand such things. Only God could know when a person is to be culpable for their sins. In some cases, a person's mental disabilities might prevent that from happening their whole life.
The rest of your reasoning is nonsense and your conclusions faulty.
Bolded line: I lived it. I was told that I was a child of the devil every day of my life and the only thing that would keep me from going to hell was Bible reading and prayer. Lots of prayer. And you had to tell Jesus every day that you believed in him and you had to thank him every day for saving you from hell. This is common in Pentecostal circles.
"The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children."- Albert Einstein
