Random Thoughts on Hell: Daddy's Crazy

[Thumpalumpacus]

The thing that's always got me the most with hell, is why the devil would do god any favours and help torture all these people that apparently deserve to be tortured? Surely if it was real, he'd be inviting guys like Hitler to the VIP lounge as congratulations on a job well done, not acting as some lord of the underworld like Hades from Greek mythology.

I'm thinking that Hell is a lounge with cool drinks, hot broads, and the best deceased musicians, while Heaven is nicely regulated with numbered cloud layers and issued harps that you must account for every week or two.

I'd rather be in hell with Jimi Hendrix, Joe Pass, Bessie Smith, and many others, than spend eternity in Heaven, marching in lockstep.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Why did Jesus come 2,000 years ago instead of today when his miracles could be verified?  He's omniscient and knows all of time, so he knew the way he documented his coming to earth was insufficient.  And he knew there was a time he could have come and left an irrefutable record.  He chose not to do so.

^^^^^^^^

[vorlon13]

And He didn't drop an anvil on that twit Joe Smith just before he started writing the Book of Mormon.

[KUSA]

The thing that's always got me the most with hell, is why the devil would do god any favours and help torture all these people that apparently deserve to be tortured? Surely if it was real, he'd be inviting guys like Hitler to the VIP lounge as congratulations on a job well done, not acting as some lord of the underworld like Hades from Greek mythology.

Kinda like this?

[Bob Kelso]

If the Christian god turned out to be real, and the bible was an accurate depiction of him, then we're all fucked. Including the Christians. 

A megalomaniac's good graces tend to only last so long. 

[Athene]

^This is supposed to sung to the tune of Call Me, Maybe right? Too, funny!

[brewer]

^This is supposed to sung to the tune of Call Me, Maybe right? Too, funny!

Is this a Blondie reference? If yes, YOU ROCK!!!!

[brewer]

Well... god of the bible if he was a real person he would in mental ward in a padded room.

I'd be afraid he could still use those magical mind powers. Mandatory lobotomy minimum, maybe pithing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pithing

[robvalue]

To anyone who hasn't been indoctrinated, it's painfully obvious that it's a made-up, ridiculous childish concept used as a fear tactic in place of evidence and arguments.

But to pretend that it is real is to admit you're worshipping a sick, evil, demented, petty being.

[drfuzzy]

I know that, as a child, I heard all sorts of explanations re: why gawd HAD to create Hell.  Something about humans being so willful and power hungry and evil, and gawd being so just and pure and perfect that anyone who defies gawd simply had to be cast away and thrown into the fire.  I think I remember being told, when I was a little older, that gawd WAS life and light and love, so being separated from gawd FEELS like eternal torture to an immortal soul, and that we choose that separation during our one lifetime.  I believed it, of course.  Now I can't even recall an explanation that isn't just batshit insane. None of them make any sense, other than what is certainly true: "EVIL EVIL men made up this sick story to keep the sheeple obeying them and giving them money".