RE: Is America the greatest country
December 13, 2015 at 2:07 pm
(This post was last modified: December 13, 2015 at 2:12 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(December 13, 2015 at 10:39 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: 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.
So what? His point was not about Hell, but about death:
Quote:I must remind you that according to your imaginary friend NOONE is innocent and EVERYONE deserves to die, including infants - in whatever gruesome way Jeezles sees fit - because a b*tch ate some fruit once.
Perhaps you should answer his point? Part of Original Sin -- our "fallen state" -- is death. As your own catechism states, Original Sin is not an act but rather a condition. It is clear that if your god wanted to do so, he could heal humankind of this fallen state (as you believe he did with Mary). The fact is that you believe your god himself invented death -- when he had the power to instead impart immortality. To then turn around and protest someone's hypothetical wish for the death of others even as you worship the Author of Death is the weakness his point is aimed at.