RE: Telling children that they are going to hell is abusive?
February 6, 2020 at 1:21 am
(This post was last modified: February 6, 2020 at 1:21 am by Fake Messiah.)
(February 6, 2020 at 12:50 am)ColdComfort Wrote:
So does this mean that when Christians tell their own children that they are going to hell is also abusive?
If you mean parents, or anyone else, telling children there is a heaven and a hell then of course it is not abusive. Telling anyone the truth is not abusive. If you mean parents, or anyone else, telling a child, or anyone else, they personally are going to hell then they are simply putting themselves in place of God. Only He would know and only He is the judge.
So then why do you think people find this incident offensive?
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
