(August 31, 2015 at 4:53 pm)Divinity Wrote: I think my daughter always brings up a good point about gays going to hell:
"How the fuck am I going to hell for having sex with other girls to receive the same punishment as Hitler who killed six million people. That doesn't sound like a just god. In fact, just for not believing in god -- I'll be sent to hell, while if Hitler repented before he killed himself, he could wind up in heaven. How am I as bad as Hitler? Or Pol Pot? Just because I like girls, and don't believe in a god that would do that to me. It just doesn't make any sense,"
Your daughter has made a mistake in her thinking on this. According to most forms of Christianity, if Hitler repented just before he committed suicide, he would still go to hell. That is because suicide gets one hell, too, according to traditional Christianity. But otherwise, her thinking seems good; yes, it is senseless that lesbian sex generally is supposed to deserve punishment.
It is a good thing that there is no god, and no heaven and no hell.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
