Do I believe Atheists are going to hell?

[Whateverist]

CL, no one is saying that.  They’re just trying to point out that a spectrum exists; that  it’s not binary like that.

Of course I agree a spectrum exists lol. I never said otherwise. In fact, I actually said exactly that when I said they can't rationalize  in the same way we can. And then clarified it again after Pocas first post.

It's just super annoying because this happens every time. I say something here about us being different from animals in any particular way, and people always come back with these examples of animals doing something. It feels like people are being obtuse on purpose for the sake of arguing and it drives me crazy.

Whenever someone says "people are different than animals" I always want to say, but people are animals. Obviously we're not plants, robots or gods so what else if not animals? What really are you trying to say other than that people are different than all other animals? But every animal is different than every other animal, different species possessing different strengths and weaknesses.

When Christians argue this way we all know the point is that it is part of the God thing. We are so different because God has set us apart, in his own image they often say. Are you really asking us to acknowledge that humans are different than all other animals in a way that can only be explained by a divinity? Because that probably won't get a lot of agreement here and it isn't because we are being argumentative. We disagree.