(January 29, 2020 at 9:06 am)Chad32 Wrote: Just imagine being muslim, where your parents tell you that you'll go to hell if you don't follow islam, then some christian comes up and says you'll go to hell if you don't change religion. Sounds like either way you're risking hell, so there's always going to be someone telling you that their god is going to toss you into a lake of fire for not sticking with the right religion.
Works the other way around too. That's how you know this hell thing is bullshit. You're damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
That reminds me of the old joke about the missionary telling the Aborigine about Hell. When he's done, the native falls silent for a minute then says, 'Let me see if I've got this right. If I don't worship your Jesus, when I die I'll go to a bad place where I'll be tortured forever and ever, is that right?'
'Precisely!' beams the missionary.
'But I only heard about Jesus today. If I had died yesterday, would my spirit have gone to this Hell of yours?'
'Oh, no,' says the missionary. 'Jesus would understand that you've never heard of Him, and would not punish you for not knowing about Him.'
The Aborigine grits his teeth, grips his spear a little tighter and says, 'Then WHY did you tell me about him??'
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
