(December 13, 2015 at 10:39 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(December 13, 2015 at 2:38 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Perhaps you could answer his point that your god dooms people to death based on Eve's applebite?
I'm no big fan of cheering anyone's death, and don't enjoy the Darwin Awards tales or such, but there is a point he's made that you're eliding, preferring instead to attack him personally with sarcasm.
I don't see how his analogy makes sense. He's pretty much saying that believing in hell is the same thing as wishing death upon someone. This analogy would only work if you wished someone would go to Hell. Then you could compare it to wishing someone got killed. But on the contrary, wishing Hell upon someone is fundamentally contrary to my beliefs and to what the Church teaches our attitude should be.
As for the claim that "God dooms people to Hell", I have talked about this quite a bit and even wrote a thread about it. I'll look for it and post it here.
Basically, I don't believe God dooms people to Hell.
Here are my beliefs regarding Hell:
http://atheistforums.org/thread-35781.html
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
-walsh
