(November 24, 2016 at 2:08 am)robvalue Wrote: Imagine an evil God, laughing at all these people dancing around following all his stupid rules. Then he sends them all to hell anyway.
And that's the thing. That's exactly what the Christian god is/doing.
There can only be a tiny handful of faiths that actually have it right, which means they must be so similar as to be indistinguishable. And that can only happen by sheer dumb luck; born in the right place at the right time. And speaking of that, are there any Christian sects that exist now that are exactly like they were at their inception? It's important because 1) they've all changed so much over time, that whomever was going to be saved was saved when the particular sect was hitting on all cylinders; or 2) only recently did they get it right, which means that all those who practiced faithfully have been shit out of luck for millennia.
Then there's #3, which sews up this fiery bullshit appropriately enough: if you've never heard of Christianity, or if you die as a child, it's largely agreed that you get a free pass to eternity. And that brings us back around to this: God is incredibly cruel for ever revealing Himself to anyone, because if he hadn't no one would ever have gone to Hell.
So it's only logical that if one believes in the Christian god, then their most noble course of action would be to ensure their children never heard of God, or, kill them when they're really young, thereby guaranteeing them a place in Heaven. If that sounds violent and perverse, well, that's what actually thinking about Christian doctrine leads to.
