(October 14, 2018 at 1:26 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: God has the greatest right to be loved...
No. No one has a right to be loved. That is an unreasonable demand on others' emotions, attempting people to feel specific things despite the fact that emotions are an unconscious internal process that we cannot directly control. The best we can do is pretend that we're feeling a specific emotion. Make-believe love does no one honour.
Quote:If they refuse after the truth has become very clear to them, he does have the right to punish them eternally...
MK, if a god existed and was really that mentally unstable, even if you spent the entirety of your life worshipping it, it could still turn on you at a whim and sentence you to eternal torment, just for its own amusement.
If you truly do believe in a loving god, you need to discard the hell myth and not look back. It's a human invention intended to scare people into obedience, and is incompatible with the concept of a genuinely benevolent and compassionate deity.
