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Are the wlrds "Sin" and "Hell" a trigger to you Atheists?
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Are the wlrds "Sin" and "Hell" a trigger to you Atheists?


Recently I read a Christian post stating that we consider these words to be "trigger words".
Aside from being dogmatically condescending, I'd have to say that personally, I agree with this person. The words and phrases sin and hell come hand in hand with other words 
that make my eyes twitch. Like molestation. Rape. Murder. Women belong in the kitchen. Women should be silent.  Women submit to your husbands. 

All of these words bear a negative connotation not in their meanings, but in their applications within my memories as a prior Christian. For instance my Dad, holding the bible in his hand bending his finger back painfully as he angrily pointed it onto the bible and told mom that god says she should submit to him and to "shut her fucking mouth", etc. Was he wrong? Not inherently although I highly doubt any Christian would rationalize such behavior. Hear no evil say no evil see no evil, right? Wrong. I saw. I heard. I'm speaking out, and yes it's a tad bit of a "trigger" to be reminded of the tenents that were the basis of the most fervent and distasteful memories in my mind.

If you talk about rape in front of a rape victim, and say "oh sorry I understand that the word 'rape' is a trigger word for you, but it's real and just part of life so you must accept it," --is that not unconsiderate and offensive? I suppose it's non sequiter, since in this instance "rape" isn't a deterrant or reasoning for eternal spiritual punishment. I would think that because of this, the words "sin" amd "hell" to the ears of someone who spent most of their lives believing in such things only to conclude that they were false fears, is worse than the word rape to a rape victim. 

So atheists do you consider the words sin and hell to be "trigger words", and also could you state whether or not you were a prior believer in sich beliefs?
If I were to create self aware beings knowing fully what they would do in their lifetimes, I sure wouldn't create a HELL for the majority of them to live in infinitely! That's not Love, that's sadistic. Therefore a truly loving god does not exist!

Quote:The sin is against an infinite being (God) unforgiven infinitely, therefore the punishment is infinite.

Dead wrong.  The actions of a finite being measured against an infinite one are infinitesimal and therefore merit infinitesimal punishment.

Quote:Some people deserve hell.

I say again:  No exceptions.  Punishment should be equal to the crime, not in excess of it.  As soon as the punishment is greater than the crime, the punisher is in the wrong.

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RE: Are the wlrds "Sin" and "Hell" a trigger to you Atheists?
I'm only triggered by direct physical confrontation or loud obnoxious people (in person- on the 'net, it is usually some pencil-armed 14 year old with a fair grasp of invective) whose rantings lead me to believe that there will be a direct physical confrontation. Sin and Hell are made-up shit that at some time in the past I used to sweat about. Once I realized what a heap of steaming feces religion is, I dropped those concepts as anything I need to be concerned with.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
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RE: Are the wlrds "Sin" and "Hell" a trigger to you Atheists?
The primary purveyor of the 'sin' horseshit around here is Dripshit.  And you know what I think of him.
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Are the wlrds "Sin" and "Hell" a trigger to you Atheists?
Don't you have a similar thread to this already?
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RE: Are the wlrds "Sin" and "Hell" a trigger to you Atheists?
Nah, no triggers of that sort here.

Stupid people do drive me up the wall, though.

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RE: Are the wlrds "Sin" and "Hell" a trigger to you Atheists?
No.
The words "sin" and "Hell" are basically meaningless to me, in that they don't evoke an emotional response of any kind.

They may trigger a shrug. That's about it.
And, yes, I used to believe.
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RE: Are the wlrds "Sin" and "Hell" a trigger to you Atheists?
Is it just an error that there are two of these threads?
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?

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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
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RE: Are the wlrds "Sin" and "Hell" a trigger to you Atheists?
When I think of the term, "trigger word", I'm thinking of a word that instantly pisses me off. Sin and Hell are more like stupid words to me. They don't piss me off so much as make me lose credibility in the person using them in a context of them being real.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Albert Einstein
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RE: Are the wlrds "Sin" and "Hell" a trigger to you Atheists?
(January 2, 2017 at 1:06 am)Astonished Wrote: Is it just an error that there are two of these threads?

I.. don't know! :Tongue

Thena how long have you been a non believer in such things? Maybe it's just a matter of time and healing..
If I were to create self aware beings knowing fully what they would do in their lifetimes, I sure wouldn't create a HELL for the majority of them to live in infinitely! That's not Love, that's sadistic. Therefore a truly loving god does not exist!

Quote:The sin is against an infinite being (God) unforgiven infinitely, therefore the punishment is infinite.

Dead wrong.  The actions of a finite being measured against an infinite one are infinitesimal and therefore merit infinitesimal punishment.

Quote:Some people deserve hell.

I say again:  No exceptions.  Punishment should be equal to the crime, not in excess of it.  As soon as the punishment is greater than the crime, the punisher is in the wrong.

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