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How do you deal with people who tell you you'll burn in hell?
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How do you deal with people who tell you you'll burn in hell?
Today, I went to my girlfriends house. Her cousin was there too. He brought up the area of the bible that mentions the rapture and said non-believers will stay here and believers will be raptured. He wasn't actually trying to threaten me with eternal damnation or whatever though (he's not really all that religious himself), he just wanted to know what I thought of those areas of the bible.

I responded:

"To me, it's just fear mongering. The people who say these things are actually presenting an argument from intimidation fallacy by saying you either need to believe this, or this will happen to you."

Since he brought it up, it made me think of the religious nutjobs who say that we're gonna burn in hell for lacking a belief in a God(s), and so I decided I wanted to talk about this. How do you guys handle religious people who threaten you with eternal agony in a pit of lava if you don't convert?
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#2
RE: How do you deal with people who tell you you'll burn in hell?
Tell him that god doesn't exist. It pisses them off pretty badly. Alternatively, tell them that if hell exists then 99.9% of the population is going to hell if we account probabilites
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RE: How do you deal with people who tell you you'll burn in hell?
I tell them to fuck off. You don't get to threaten me without realizing exactly what you've done.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great

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RE: How do you deal with people who tell you you'll burn in hell?
I simply respond with this:
"That's ok. They've got a better band and an open wet bar."
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#5
RE: How do you deal with people who tell you you'll burn in hell?
I usually ask them if they're ready for Ragnarrok.

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#6
RE: How do you deal with people who tell you you'll burn in hell?
Only happened a couple of times but I just grin/laugh. Its too ridiculous to take seriously.
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#7
RE: How do you deal with people who tell you you'll burn in hell?
I generally tell them to settle down or they will be there long before I will. Devil
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RE: How do you deal with people who tell you you'll burn in hell?
(February 8, 2015 at 10:49 pm)kookookachoo Wrote: I generally tell them to settle down or they will be there long before I will. Devil

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RE: How do you deal with people who tell you you'll burn in hell?
If someone tells me I'll burn in hell if I don't accept Jesus, I say I can't accept Jesus because he burns people in hell for eternity. When they say Jesus doesn't send people to hell, I tell them he created a place for people to go that don't beg him to not send them there. I mean Hitler may not have personally shoved anyone in a gas chamber, but the concentration camps were his idea. The devil's in the details, as it were. When people want you to accept Jesus as your lord and savior, you need to think about exactly what that means.

If someone is ok with all that, like my grandmother is, there's nothing I can do about it. I don't find it acceptable, and there's not really anything I can do about it. Especially when you get into the discussion of which hell you mean, since both christianity and islam preach hell. And islam's version of hell is apparently even worse than christianity's.
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10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/

Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html

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#10
RE: How do you deal with people who tell you you'll burn in hell?
Put fist through his face
But seriously tell him to "it's better than kissing immoral ass who burns people for not liking him."
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