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Wait, you couldn't have been a real Christian™.

If you were you wouldn't have been a preacher.  Because the bible clearly states that a woman should remain quiet...

That's her problem.  She opened her mouth!  I also don't believe you guys when you say you would choose hell over following him.  Talk is easy.  That's like those people who say if so and so is elected they will move to another country.  Never happens.

I suppose it depends on what you mean by "hell". Some Christians maintain that it is a place of eternal torment -- fire and brimstone, the works; others seem to think it is some realm of eternal separation from God but without the lurid Dante-esque details; still others claim that it is a literal extinction of the individual -- death as opposed to eternal life. And I've heard even other speculations about what it might be.

Since you guys can't get your shit together after two millennia and agree on the meaning of a cornerstone of your own faith, you really have no reason to chide others for taking the entire notion rather lightly. And yeah, Yahweh, as depicted, is a dick. But so what? He is a character in a book, and hell is a bogeyman story contained in the same book. Neither have been demonstrated to be any more true than Jack and the Beanstalk. They're just more effective recruiting tools, and there seems to be no end of people who fall for it. Not my problem.