(June 14, 2011 at 4:04 pm)colubridae Wrote: Pointless conclusion based on erroneous assumption.
You gained nothing from it.
Just trying to sneak in some deism, I guess. Fail!
Even I know that deists don't believe in heaven or hell, so the assumption that he's trying to 'sneak it in' by asking this hypothetical question is ridiculous. Try not to be so quick to condemn with your knee-jerk reactions unless you truly know what you're talking about.
I would think that hell has probably a ratio of at least 1000 to 1, but regardless of quantity, hell has the quality. See my signature for Mark Twain's take on this.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell