(January 3, 2016 at 12:21 am)dyresand Wrote:

(January 3, 2016 at 12:17 am)popsthebuilder Wrote: You didn't have to take out my words to put yours in the all working just fine together. Come on man acid bath doesn't lift your spirits? Really it shouldn't I guess. To answer your question, I guess I'm just a stick in the mud.

Faith in selfless Unity for Good.

If it was a joke it went over my head

The word or words "Dr. Seuss" triggered the memory of a song is all.

Faith in selfless Unity for Good.

(January 3, 2016 at 12:27 am)popsthebuilder Wrote: Faith in selfless Unity for Good.

You will be assimilated!
You will be assimilated!
You will be assimilated!
Resistance is futile!

Nobody, not even the most evil of all persons ever to walk this earth deserves the punishment of the "eternal" horror beyond imagination which has been called Hell, for there is no justice in subjecting one whose capacity for evil is limited by time, space, and ...er...imagination to an infinite fate (the same truth applies likewise to those of a limited capacity for good making a claim for infinite reward). Excepting, and only excepting the one who has used this idea to threaten others into compliance on anything, regardless of who he would create out of his own shit as a deflection target for his own egotistical whims!

When they hand you a tin star and pay you to enforce the law of the people, and you do that, then it is correctly said that you are the law. When you claim to do anything similar for a god, especially one of such magnitudinous power and ego as Yahweh is described by those who claim to "personally know" this fantastical (and horrific) person, then you also make the claim that you are that god. How could you not be assuming that role, regardless of the title you choose to whitewash it with, when this said god never, ever gets anything done in our world without the assholes who call themselves "followers" who supposedly act on his behalf? Therefore, when you claim to act in your god's name, you deserve to be treated like anyone who claims to be God himself. It should also be kept in mind just how angry, violent, capricious, bigoted, misogynistic, and cruel that god (that's you, Believer) happens to be.  Did I mention crazy? Nobody can do more grave harm, and nobody is more evil and treacherous in his heart than the evangelist who has declared himself "on a mission from God"!

(January 4, 2016 at 2:47 pm)God of Mr. Hanky Wrote: Nobody, not even the most evil of all persons ever to walk this earth deserves the punishment of the "eternal" horror beyond imagination which has been called Hell, for there is no justice in subjecting one whose capacity for evil is limited by time, space, and ...er...imagination to an infinite fate (the same truth applies likewise to those of a limited capacity for good making a claim for infinite reward). Excepting, and only excepting the one who has used this idea to threaten others into compliance on anything, regardless of who he would create out of his own shit as a deflection target for his own egotistical whims!

When they hand you a tin star and pay you to enforce the law of the people, and you do that, then it is correctly said that you are the law. When you claim to do anything similar for a god, especially one of such magnitudinous power and ego as Yahweh is described by those who claim to "personally know" this fantastical (and horrific) person, then you also make the claim that you are that god. How could you not be assuming that role, regardless of the title you choose to whitewash it with, when this said god never, ever gets anything done in our world without the assholes who call themselves "followers" who supposedly act on his behalf? Therefore, when you claim to act in your god's name, you deserve to be treated like anyone who claims to be God himself. It should also be kept in mind just how angry, violent, capricious, bigoted, misogynistic, and cruel that god (that's you, Believer) happens to be.  Did I mention crazy? Nobody can do more grave harm, and nobody is more evil and treacherous in his heart than the evangelist who has declared himself "on a mission from God"!

Billions of people have experienced the equivalent of hell just by having lived their lives on Earth.  From the day they were born to the day that they died they lived in pain, misery, hunger, slavery, poverty, war, disease, physical and mental impairments.  They suffered every minute of their lives without anyone to lighten their load.  They experienced real hell.  So what do they have to fear from an imaginary hell in an imaginary after-life?

Bravissimo, sir. Perfectly said.

(January 7, 2016 at 7:33 am)Stimbo Wrote: Bravissimo, sir. Perfectly said.

(January 7, 2016 at 4:06 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote:

(January 4, 2016 at 2:47 pm)God of Mr. Hanky Wrote: Nobody, not even the most evil of all persons ever to walk this earth deserves the punishment of the "eternal" horror beyond imagination which has been called Hell, for there is no justice in subjecting one whose capacity for evil is limited by time, space, and ...er...imagination to an infinite fate (the same truth applies likewise to those of a limited capacity for good making a claim for infinite reward). Excepting, and only excepting the one who has used this idea to threaten others into compliance on anything, regardless of who he would create out of his own shit as a deflection target for his own egotistical whims!

When they hand you a tin star and pay you to enforce the law of the people, and you do that, then it is correctly said that you are the law. When you claim to do anything similar for a god, especially one of such magnitudinous power and ego as Yahweh is described by those who claim to "personally know" this fantastical (and horrific) person, then you also make the claim that you are that god. How could you not be assuming that role, regardless of the title you choose to whitewash it with, when this said god never, ever gets anything done in our world without the assholes who call themselves "followers" who supposedly act on his behalf? Therefore, when you claim to act in your god's name, you deserve to be treated like anyone who claims to be God himself. It should also be kept in mind just how angry, violent, capricious, bigoted, misogynistic, and cruel that god (that's you, Believer) happens to be.  Did I mention crazy? Nobody can do more grave harm, and nobody is more evil and treacherous in his heart than the evangelist who has declared himself "on a mission from God"!

Billions of people have experienced the equivalent of hell just by having lived their lives on Earth.  From the day they were born to the day that they died they lived in pain, misery, hunger, slavery, poverty, war, disease, physical and mental impairments.  They suffered every minute of their lives without anyone to lighten their load.  They experienced real hell.  So what do they have to fear from an imaginary hell in an imaginary after-life?

I happen to know, and first-hand, quite a bit of the real hells on this earth.

Children don't know that when you tell them of a fate much worse than their present condition, and one which they will never grow out of or outlive. Children actually are known to lose sleep over fear of things under their beds, and the idea of a devil who may take them if they weren't good little boys or girls if they fail to wake up can be profoundly damaging - how can you really think the issue through and still play it down? This is why I feel it's important to go after the sort of evangelists who do or would terrorize children with such horrors, when they aren't able to logically dismiss them - it is the ultimate child abuse!

Pro tip for Christians: Deliberately driving little children insane is not good.

If the hell described in the Bible is real, then a whole bunch of innocent people go to it. Including all atheists regardless of how moral.

War is worse because it is existent. If the eternal torture for the stupid sins of the Bible that is known as "Hell" actually existed, it would be far, far worse.

/Meme ruined by a pedantic turtle

(January 10, 2016 at 10:33 am)Evie Wrote: If the hell described in the Bible is real, then a whole bunch of innocent people go to it. Including all atheists regardless of how moral.

War is worse because it is existent. If the eternal torture for the stupid sins of the Bible that is known as "Hell" actually existed, it would be far, far worse.

/Meme ruined by a pedantic turtle

According to the fairy tale after you die you will either go to the sea, death, or hell.  The good news is that they are all temporary and everyone makes bail on Judgment Day.  Just because a person was in hell it doesn't mean that he won't get into the golden cube but he has to be a member of one of the twelve tribes of Israel to enter through one of the gates.  If you can't get into the golden cube chances are you will get tossed into the lake of fire, which isn't hell.  Hell is also tossed into the lake of fire as well as death.  And there are no seas on the planet where the golden cube is.