My views on objective morality

[bennyboy]

I don't think it works this way. You don't just ask for a last minute stairway to heaven and get it even though you're a horrible person. Only if your heart is truly good and you've sought forgiveness out of true remorse.

I don't agree with the whole people should pay for the things they've done idea. I always struggled more with thinking that nothing anyone could ever do could warrant an eternity in hell.

My problem isn't with the forgiveness of sins. It's in the inequity in free will which will cause abused parties to harden their heart, and therefore go to Hell, when their abusers still have a chance to redeem themselves and go to Heaven.

Some people are put in situations in which heart-hardening is a survival tactic. Others are put in situations where life is pretty much puppy dogs and rainbows, and nothing could be easier than feeling full of love and acceptance. Compton kids don't get to buy their Starbucks coffee, put on their designer yoga pants, and spend the morning on a mat in the park spiritually embracing everyone. They have to fight for their lunch money, watch their friends get beaten or worse, watch their moms shoot up, and then get told by some rich white fuck, "Open your heart, my child." And the Catholic idea of God is that if this poor kid is unable to do so, he will be condemned to suffer forever without the grace of god. Worst. Father. Ever.

Here's some real comfort-- the dead will cease to exist, and will neither suffer nor any longer cause suffering. That is the most perfect equality that the Universe could possibly offer us-- and it doesn't cost a dime!