(August 27, 2018 at 12:21 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: Why does god feel compelled to eternally punish only those folks who don’t love him back? Why is that sin the only unforgivable one, and why isn’t it forgivable? I have heard of hell described by Christians as a “self-imposed exile.” If I were to die tomorrow and realize I was wrong, and I begged god for forgiveness but he refused, how could my exile be considered self-imposed? It’s not self-imposed if god is actively preventing me from being with him.
Does god love the folks in hell? If he does, and they are in agony for being separated from him, what logical or moral reason is there for god to keep them ostracized? That sounds like the opposite of a forgiving god. It sounds to me like someone who holds grudges.
Christians, would you do this to your own children? If your child ran away, and came back a month later, filthy and in tears, saying, “mommy/daddy I miss you so much. I’m so alone and afraid. I’m sorry I left; I just want to come home and cuddle with you on the couch,” would you tell them it’s ‘too late’, and shut the door in their face for good? Why or why not?
Why is being loved back the most important thing to god; even more important than how we treat each other during life? Even more important than how his chosen priesthood treat their children?
Well, obviously, god wants us to love him because that's why he created us. He's lonely as hell up there by himself with no one to talk to. The schizophrenic conversation he has with his other selves don't qualify as society. Sending us to hell is kinda like the woman who slashes the tires of the man who dumps her.
Truly, if christians treated their children the way they claim god treats his they'd go to jail for child abuse, child neglect, and child endangerment.
Hell has no redemptive qualities whatsoever. It's the last refuge of a deity that can't deal with what he created. Or, more precisely, the men who wrote the bible knew they had to scare people into believing their astronomically insane religion.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
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I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.