I was raised by a mother who felt the need to indoctrinate me into whatever religion her "current" husband was into at the time. My birth father was a catholic. My first stepfather was a methodist. Second stepfather was catholic. The third one wasn't a practicing religious person so he just goes to midnight mass once a year with my mother, if she still bothers to go. I don't know because I haven't spoken to her for nearly 8 years.
That being said, the way I view hell is like this: I don't believe that any god or gods exist because I have seen zero physical evidence of such an entity. The place called "heaven" is non-existent and follows my lack of belief in a god. Hell is the same principle. To me, there is just no real reason to accept that a place filled with fire and brimstone could possibly exist, so it's not something I worry about.
The problem with the Abrahamic religions is that they teach the fear that if you don't love their father god, he will send you to hell. Now, I don't know about anyone else, but don't you think it falls along the lines of mental abuse to subject an individual to the belief that if they don't obey and give their loyalty and love to an entity they will never lay their eyes on, that they will end up burning forever in a place that's never been proven to exist? BUT, at the same time, GOD LOVES THEM.
That being said, the way I view hell is like this: I don't believe that any god or gods exist because I have seen zero physical evidence of such an entity. The place called "heaven" is non-existent and follows my lack of belief in a god. Hell is the same principle. To me, there is just no real reason to accept that a place filled with fire and brimstone could possibly exist, so it's not something I worry about.
The problem with the Abrahamic religions is that they teach the fear that if you don't love their father god, he will send you to hell. Now, I don't know about anyone else, but don't you think it falls along the lines of mental abuse to subject an individual to the belief that if they don't obey and give their loyalty and love to an entity they will never lay their eyes on, that they will end up burning forever in a place that's never been proven to exist? BUT, at the same time, GOD LOVES THEM.
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