(March 9, 2019 at 9:51 am)Der/die AtheistIn Wrote:(March 8, 2019 at 6:20 pm)fredd bear Wrote: This topic is of academic interest only to me; because I don't believe in gods or an afterlife, I have little interest in arguing a point.
Not interested in hypotheticals. I'm simply saying the Christian concept of an eternal hell, believed in 'Christian' cultures', is a Church invention as far as I'm aware.
There have been different notions of 'hell' in other cultures, for millennia. Christian eternal hell is very specific. I looked up"hell' in Wikipedia and found a pretty good general explanation. Also searched for "the origins of hell" and came across a lot of Christian apologist arguments.
This a a huge topic in terms of available information. I've provided a very basic idea, with limited information. I've also given a couple of sources for more information. If you're interested, do some research and make up your own mind.
I would like to do some research, but finding out what a certain person believes is harder than doing research about religion.
Researching a certain person's beliefs is sort of a fucked up thing to do most of the time, anyway. I'm interested in what a person believes about economics, foreign policy, criminal justice, and that sort of thing when I'm thinking over whether or not to support them politically. But the rest of the time, obsessing over what a certain person believes is basically something that it is OK for the person to punch me in the face for doing. You are too interested in investigating people that you know for engaging in thought crimes according to your probably psychologically disturbed standards.
We do not inherit the world from our parents. We borrow it from our children.
