RE: Fear
October 25, 2011 at 12:39 pm
(This post was last modified: October 25, 2011 at 12:40 pm by Welsh cake.)
One thing that I can't comprehend is why anyone should fear damnation.
Never a month goes by without receiving a hell threat from a wonderful Bible-thumper, same old same old. Then the thought occurred when examining the concept of this inconceivable afterlife place/state of torment more closely. Hell, within religious doctrine, theology and tradition is supposed to be a place of anguish, of suffering and punishment.
If the soul is indestructible then how can it feel damage or disorder? What is actually causing the pain? If the soul can be destroyed how can Hell be eternal? If the soul can response to stimulus whenever sustaining injury or other why don't we ever feel it hurting like when you bang your toe against something solid for example? If we're dead how is the mental or physical pain happening without any kind of body to experience the sensation?
It never ceases to amaze me how a few minutes of critical thinking can overthrow thousands of years of silly dogmatic superstition.
Never a month goes by without receiving a hell threat from a wonderful Bible-thumper, same old same old. Then the thought occurred when examining the concept of this inconceivable afterlife place/state of torment more closely. Hell, within religious doctrine, theology and tradition is supposed to be a place of anguish, of suffering and punishment.
If the soul is indestructible then how can it feel damage or disorder? What is actually causing the pain? If the soul can be destroyed how can Hell be eternal? If the soul can response to stimulus whenever sustaining injury or other why don't we ever feel it hurting like when you bang your toe against something solid for example? If we're dead how is the mental or physical pain happening without any kind of body to experience the sensation?
It never ceases to amaze me how a few minutes of critical thinking can overthrow thousands of years of silly dogmatic superstition.
