(May 7, 2011 at 2:15 am)Godschild Wrote: Yes I agree that some religions have ideas that are dangerous and frankly should not be tolerated. Even within christianity there are those who have dangerous ideas and I for one do not tolerate them.
Even if hell was not a part of christianity there still would be discord between religions and christianity, there is discord between different factions of Islam and there will always be discord between the different religions. Have you ever given any thought to christianity being the most plausible of the religions because of hell.
The idea of a God that throws good people in Hell for an arbitrary reason (not believing in Jesus when there is so little evidence for him or his miracles) on the contrary really weakens the idea of Christianity being true.
Hell is the worst possible place, Heaven the best possible place. It is basic carrot and stick psychology that is so extreme and primitive in its conception that it is very easy to understand it as a simple human construct.
The Jews, for example, have no Hell: if you don't go to Heaven, you just die. This makes sense.
The Greeks, Egyptians, Celts, all had "judges" at your death determining if your life was worthy of Heaven, and they took all of your actions into account, not just one criteria like "did you believe in that one guy". This makes sense, even though they used their own moral standards exposing their religion as a purely social construct.
Hell is just too primitive an idea to give Christianity credibility.
