Thoughts on Hell?

[Godscreated]

The breath of life is the spirit (soul) given to Adam and all mankind, it will live on after my body has rotted away.

Cool story, bro.  Needs more dragons.

The story is fine as it was written and needs nothing else, it's you that requires more because you can't be satisfied with reality.

...You influenced {your daughter} by not taking her to church to see both sides.

Oh, that's rich, coming from Mr. "I have the Truth™"!   Why would I deliberately expose a child to something that I consider to be a psychologically harmful mythology?

The same reason I allow myself to be exposed to evolution, so I can discern the truth, I've looked at both sides.

Care to enumerate how many non-Christian religious assemblies you've taken your children to?  I suspect that the number is at or very close to zero.  Do they know what a Hindu puja is?  Do they know the Wiccan Rede?  Do they know what the 5 pillars of Islam are?  Ever taken them to a Buddhist temple of any denomination?  Do they know how to perform a blót to Allfather Oðinn?  Do they know what the Guru Granth Sahib is?  How about the Daodejing?  Ever taken them to a smudging ceremony?  Would they recognize a Shinto shrine if they saw one?  Do they know why there's a little red shrine with oranges and incense sticks at the Chinese restaurant?  Do they even know what the Shema Israel is?  (FFS, could they even tell the difference between Futhark runes, hiragana, Chinese ideograms, Arabic script, Devanagari script and Hebrew?)

 To bad you had to spend so much of your time looking all that stuff up because I have no children. If I did I would as I have with myself given them a book that shows the different religions compared to Christianity.  

Let's try something simpler.  Have you taken them to a Catholic mass (Roman Catholic or Orthodox)?  A Unitarian church?  A Quaker service?  What do they know about Christian Science? Mennonites? Mormonism? Jehovah's Witnesses?

Again if I had children I would have taught them about those different religions. I say different religions because as far as I know only one of those you mentioned is following the Bible, the rest play at what makes them feel good and feeling good is what they will have now, but later own they will receive a huge surprise they were not expecting.

My parents were not overtly religious, but I would never, ever blame them for my lack of belief or hold them accountable for any consequences thereof.  I did plenty of research into religions over the past 50+ years because of my own curiosity and I can answer affirmatively to all of the above questions. You think you can overwhelm me with all this nonsense, nope I do read about many different things.

As I said, my daughter is an adult and is perfectly capable of doing her own religious explorations if she feels the urge.  The fact that you think I should have dragged her to a Christian church suggests to me that your own children are being indoctrinated into your particular beliefs rather than allowed to seek their own spirituality. 

Children are vulnerable and should be protected from those things that can harm them, you and I see a total difference in what is harmful to children. Jesus told His disciples when they tried to keep children from coming to Him, it would be better for a parent to tie a millstone around his neck than to keep the children from me. Not taking your child to church and thus indoctrinating her against Christianity is exactly what Christ was telling His disciples. She most likely will never seek out God because of you and God will, even though you do not believe. hold you responsible.

Don't get all huffy on me, you are the one who started the attack on my family, I'm just feeding you the same as you dish out. Kitchen getting to hot for you, hell's a lot worse, I would avoid it if you can't take this little bit.

Stuff your hateful eternal torture mythology up your constipated ass, GC.  Your hell -- You burn in it.

Not my hell, I've chosen a different path. Hell is your highway you're zooming down and I promise you will find it extremely terrible.

Your nightmare threat has gotten you to this point not me, please take responsibility for you action and words.

I take 100% responsibility for all my actions and all my words and stand by them unconditionally.  I do indeed want you to fail, and there's not a lot you can do to change that.

  You are correct I can't change that, it's your road to travel and I'm thankful it's not mine. If you do take 100% responsibility for your words and actions then lay off saying I'm out off line when I dish your own approach back at you. I'm not the passive Christian that you might think I am, just ask the people in my church they will tell you I speak my mind and stand up for what I believe is right. I've said nothing to you that I wouldn't to anyone else. In my church when I was asked to teach a class many realized that they were going to face the tough questions, I didn't beat around the bush, I was interested in being surrounded by knowledgeable, strong Christians. I faced up to my short comings as a Christian and told the church about them and it was beneficial for me and so I taught what I practiced, ask yourself the tough questions and grow in your relationship with God, feel good Christianity has no place in the church.

GC