(December 13, 2015 at 11:33 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(December 13, 2015 at 11:28 am)Stimbo Wrote: The analogy is not that believing in hell is the same as wishing death on someone, but that saying that someone deserves torture and endless suffering is. It's not the belief, it's the intent. For the record, I subscribe to neither opinion.
Ah I see what you're saying. Well hopefully my explanation of Hell clears that up as well.
Not really, because it's still relying on an opinion that a particular set of people are deserving of some form of segregated, exclusionary treatment. It doesn't even matter at that point what you think that treatment entails. As I said, it's the intent that counts.
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.'