RE: Ex-Christians: How do you lose your fear of hell?
November 17, 2017 at 10:27 am
(This post was last modified: November 17, 2017 at 10:28 am by Fake Messiah.)
KiwiNFLFan consider that in all of history, no one has ever produced any good evidence for existence of Hell or any afterlife. None.
Also what makes you think that being good Catholic will save you from Hell? There is no safe bet when it comes to believing in a god. There have been hundreds of thousands of gods that humans have claimed to be real, either in the past or today, and not one of them has a superior argument for his or her existence or any agreement on how we are supposed to worship these gods, and what happens to us when we die. Simply going along with the religion of your parents and neighbors is too risky. It is also intellectually indefensible. That's an accident of birth, not rational decision making.
Also what makes you think that being good Catholic will save you from Hell? There is no safe bet when it comes to believing in a god. There have been hundreds of thousands of gods that humans have claimed to be real, either in the past or today, and not one of them has a superior argument for his or her existence or any agreement on how we are supposed to worship these gods, and what happens to us when we die. Simply going along with the religion of your parents and neighbors is too risky. It is also intellectually indefensible. That's an accident of birth, not rational decision making.
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"
