Eternal Hell

[Cinjin]

How did you discern this feature of the spiritual punishment system (that it has sentence lengths that accord with crimes)?

How do you know that your god won't favor Hitler over the other guy?

I point back to what Jesus said, about those who harm children. (There is a special place for them in hell.) Hitler harmed many.

Wouldn't matter anyway. If Hitler killed himself, he likely apologized for his misdeeds just before he ended it all - as most people do, and since your god is the ultimate scumbag of the universe who judges wrong thinkers instead of wrong doers, it's actually very plausible that Hitler could have a warm bed in heaven. Which is doubly ironic considering that all the jews he had murdered would not receive such consideration from that asshole of a god you serve.

Your vile religion would be a funny joke if it wasn't so fucking revolting.

[Cyberman]

Even more revolting is the notion that Hitler gets a private room in "Heaven" for being a good Catholic and doing his Lord's work, while those primarily targeted by the regime he ran, the Jews, get condemned to "Hell" for not accepting Jesus as their saviour. But nobody here would espouse that idea - would they?

[kılıç_mehmet]

Hi Folks,

I have been thinking about the Concept of hell more and more and it appears to me with all my reading that there are only two religions that offer the Concept of an 'ETERNAL' Hell.

1. Christianity
   
2. Islam
   

Can someone please tell me if they have found other religions that teach Eternal Suffering, It seams strange that these two are the only two religions that offer this concept.

The question then arises with Pascals Wager in that providing all other religions have less severe Hell's e.g. 1 Year / Forgiveness in the End then the Gamble is getting it wrong with these two.

The other aspect of this is the fact that Islam teach that you will goto Hell permanently for not believing in God i.e. worshiping Jesus.

And Christianity is the inverse of this so its literally a coin toss.

What are your thoughts?

I think that there are other religions that have it. For example, the olden pagan religions of many people had the concept of hell. My own people, the Turks, had the concept of "Tamu" which was where the evil spirits resided, and there lived Erlik(or Yerlik) which was the master of those spirits. Wicked men who died, went to stay with Yerlik and well, Tamu was a place of fire, where the evil spirits would suffer, and then go up to the earth in order to wreak havoc and chaos upon the people. The (black)shamans would often work out deals with Yerlik to exorcise those spirits, which would often be in forms of blood sacrifice, of horses or cattle.