(June 3, 2017 at 7:25 pm)Tizheruk Wrote:Quote:[url=https://atheistforums.org/post-1560998.html#pid1560998][/url]Maybe because the alternative is really really unpleasant :-)
Both sound equally horrifying. hell the whole concept of life after death is about a nightmarish a concept as I can imagine . And even if heaven were pleasant I would not want to go there the price is too high . And the reward is not worth it.
lol hell. Why would Hell be any worse then heaven? I mean what do we know about Hell? That it is run by Satan who, compared to God, is actually a nice person. The only reason we know Hell is a bad place is because Jesus said it and other places in the Bible said it (like Revelation) but both Jesus and Bible are already established as liars so why believe them on description of Hell?
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
