(May 19, 2020 at 3:29 am)SuicideCommando01 Wrote: Listen everyone, I appreciate the replies, I understand how there are hells in other religions, but i'm mainly addressing the Christian one (though in part I could also be addressing the other hells of religions too), now yes I know some religions don't have underworlds, and yes I am aware of some bible passages that say the soul will be destroyed but hell itself will go on or something like that, but since the bible is a huge mess of contradictions, I don't know which idea to trust, eternal damnation or the second death, the bible can't seem to make up its mind. The point is, anybody who agrees with being burned forever and ever with no end simply because of something that person did like not accepting Jesus, murder, rape, robbery, etc or someone who doesn't agree but is just fine with it (basically: "I don't agree with it, but it must be done") is PSYCHOTIC. Underworlds are nothing but products of sick, and demented religions
You are asking probably an impossible question. Why people believe in hell probably has few reasons. If you think of "decent" Christians and how they can believe in hell, then the reason probably is that they don't think much about it or, should I say, avoid thinking about it. You know, just like with Christians who acknowledge evolution – they just don’t think about its devastating repercussions on Christianity ("Don't look down"). And some of them whitewash hell like there was a Christian member on this forum who said that there is no torture in hell, but that it's just "dark place without God".
Indeed, religion is not something rational, but something that people do on their emotions - just like you now see Christians claiming they don't need to wear a surgical mask because God will look after them while they carry AR-15 because God won't take care of them. It doesn't make any sense.
Now, of course, there are plenty of Christians that just get off on hate and are addicted to hate that they spend most of their day thinking about the antichrist, masonic lodges, Zionism and how they’re all going to hell.
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"
