On Hell and Forgiveness

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Some people are born without the ability to feel remorse. How she's one account for that? We would call them sociopathic monsters, but it isn't a choice.

Do the mentally ill get a pass? 500 years ago we did not understand mental illness at all. Those people would have assumed the person schizophrenic person was simply chosing that, or maybe infested with demons. How do we know that all people who qualify for hell aren't damaged or suffering from mental illness?

This is one thing that makes no sense to me. It's very unequal. Some people are literally tortured in life, others are relatively safe and healthy, yet in the end must all pass the same emotional test of accepting love?

Also, those born into the "wrong" religion are statistically way more likely to fail the "test", even if they try to love God. They end up doing it the wrong way, or something.

If God tortures anyone, for any reason, then I think it's a disgusting monster. With supposedly unlimited power and resources, there should never be any need to do this, even as a means to an end. God supposedly knows I think it's a disgusting monster, using the brain it supposedly gave me. Does it want me to pretend to love it regardless? That makes it even worse. I'm not interested, especially since there's no guarantee it would ever keep to its word. Why would I trust a torturer?

Fuck the whole thing. I find it very troubling that anyone can find the idea of people being tortured acceptable. Religion has somehow normalized this. Of course none of it is true, but it tells us a lot about the psychology of the people who believe that it is.