RE: HELL
August 31, 2015 at 8:40 pm
(This post was last modified: August 31, 2015 at 8:42 pm by Homeless Nutter.)
(August 31, 2015 at 7:16 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:It's the same thing, as the good old fashioned fiery pit, only with no pyrotechnics and god cleared of any malice. Sure - god doesn't throw you in Hell - you put yourself there, so it's your fault, you dumb-ass sinner...Quote:By their account, hell is best understood as the condition of total alienation from all that is good, hopeful and loving in the world. What's more, this condition is chosen by the damned themselves, the ultimate exercise of free will, not a punishment engineered by God.
Hell ''is not a 'place' but a 'state,' a person's 'state of being,' in which a person suffers from the deprivation of God,'' declared La Civilta Cattolica, an influential Jesuit magazine based in Rome and closely tied to the Vatican, in a long editorial in July. [...]
Unless this is supposed to mean, that it will be in my power to get myself out of that "state" of Hell if I want to, in which case - sure, I'll do that. If god isn't going to punish me - I'm surely not going to "punish" myself, I'm not stupid. So I can go to heaven (whatever that might be) no matter what. Sweet...
In the meantime - f*** god and the donkey he rode in on...
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
