What is your Favorite Religious Contradiction?

[Cinjin]

I still don’t think you supported your argument that it’s a majority. In fact I think your side is less supported. You admitted that your experience was from your childhood, whereas I’m an active participating member of Christianity. In my locale (local community, multiple Churches I teach at, and internet communities) I see it as a very small minority view, especially in today’s climate, eternal torture is inconsistent with God’s nature as most Christians feel when I’ve asked. Most don’t think about or question what they believe or read the Bible, which is one thing we can agree on I think.

I do indeed agree that most christians do not question what they read in the Bible ... which I think lends some credence to my argument. The sheep will believe what the shepherd tells them. My parents are members of a fundy baptist church numbering about 1500 members. This is typical of the kind a church's we attended in my youth. I would say I personally know of a least a dozen other church's of that size that are full of parishioners that feel the same. Add that to half the Bible Belt (which I experienced first hand before getting kicked out of Bob Jones University), and you've got a LOT of people who believe in the eternal suffering of a fiery hell. Admittedly, I would have a difficult (if not impossible) time "proving" that the majority of christians (51% or more) still believe in everlasting damnation, but I think you would have the same difficulty proving otherwise.