| Poll: How offended do you feel when someone says that you're going to Hell? This poll is closed. |
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| Hell, for me, sounds like a lovely place, so I take that as a compliment. | 2 | 3.77% | |
| I feel not a speck of insult. | 10 | 18.87% | |
| It's definitely a personal attack, but still it doesn't really offend me that much. | 19 | 35.85% | |
| I do feel quite offended actually. I don't like to hear that. | 4 | 7.55% | |
| I feel greatly offended. | 1 | 1.89% | |
| Other (please explain in your post how you feel) | 17 | 32.08% | |
| Total | 53 vote(s) | 100% | |
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Not half as disturbing as the wedding night. Unthink that one.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
Rupture seems more apt, somehow.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
What I find so offensive is that humans STILL believe in this childish crap called heaven and hell..
FFS, grow up people "The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
I never tell someone they're going to hell because that would just be stupid. I might tell them to go to hell. "To hell with you" can trip off the tongue without any thought of hell as a place in the Christian mythology.
If someone says that to me I just think they're pissed off about something. I certainly don't think they are putting a spell on me which will result in my being whisked off to a 'bad place'. 
Actually I had a young man I just met tell me that he was afraid that I was going to go to hell because of my rejection of Jesus as my personal lord and savior. I didn't feel insulted or angry by his comments. I felt very sad and I felt pity for this person. I completely understand that these were the things he was taught by those around, I asked him if he has ever made a serious critical look at the tenets of his religion and to no surprise he felt that to do so would be sin. What else should I have felt but pity?
 (November 6, 2013 at 12:00 am)Bipolar Bob Wrote: Actually I had a young man I just met tell me that he was afraid that I was going to go to hell because of my rejection of Jesus as my personal lord and savior. I didn't feel insulted or angry by his comments. I felt very sad and I felt pity for this person. I completely understand that these were the things he was taught by those around, I asked him if he has ever made a serious critical look at the tenets of his religion and to no surprise he felt that to do so would be sin. What else should I have felt but pity? (bolded by me) You tell a person like that to research what Jesus' Hebrew name was and what that name literally means. 
I voted other, someone telling me I'm going to hell would be hilarious.
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![[Image: b7wAvWj.png]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=i.imgur.com%2Fb7wAvWj.png)  (October 30, 2013 at 7:22 pm)Esquilax Wrote: I tend to take it as it's meant: whether we find it ridiculous or not- and I do- it's still clearly a threat or an insult. Childish and eye-rollingly insipid as it is, there's no way to interpret it so that the person saying it has good intentions toward us. I was going to post my own response, but this. This is about how I feel. Plus throw in a dash of indignance at their obvious superiority complex and I'ma call it a day.
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. ![[Image: tumblr_n1j4lmACk61qchtw3o1_500.gif]](https://66.media.tumblr.com/5fb74c6d16622fb3dbb358509c9aec03/tumblr_n1j4lmACk61qchtw3o1_500.gif)
 (November 5, 2013 at 5:00 pm)Godschild Wrote: You guys are quick to condemn all Christians when in truth there are many who would agree with you that scaring children with hell is inappropriate You seem to have such a hard-on for assuming that we condemn all Christians. I was just referring a story about my religious upbringing. As I'm sure you probably don't like the Catholic church (neither do I), even so you should see the parallels with Protestant churches which also teach children that if they disobey God they'll go to Hell.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
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