RE: Request from a Christian.
January 1, 2017 at 9:56 pm
(This post was last modified: January 1, 2017 at 10:00 pm by Cyberman.)
(January 1, 2017 at 7:24 pm)Dragonspride1995 Wrote: I am curious though; I thought atheists didn't believe in hell.. err lacked belief in it.
That's actually irrelevant. The point is that you believe in it, and that you believe that we as non-believers deserve the fate (if the latter is not your belief then fine; consider this an illustration for someone who does).
In other words, whatever the concept of hell being mooted, be it eternal fiery torture all the way to eternal separation from your god and exclusion from the in-crowd, you are of the opinion that a person who doesn't believe what you believe they should believe - stay with me - is worth such treatment.
It's no different to my saying that because you didn't send me a xmas card, you are such low value in my opinion that I am going to make a voodoo doll of you (correctly a 'poppet') and inflict agonising torments on you for the rest of your life. That you may think that's insane is immaterial; what is on trial here is my opinion of you, and for such a trivial 'offence'.
Put more simply, by saying an atheist is hellbound you basically just said "die in a fire", because there's something broken in us that fails to match up to an "if you're not with us, you're against us" standard laid down in a book of myths.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
