(March 31, 2021 at 10:42 am)HappySkeptic Wrote:(March 30, 2021 at 6:59 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: You're a history buff. Did the Christians (historically speaking) do unto others as they wished to be done unto them? Or did they treat people cruelly and persecute them, all while lamenting every bit of persecution that came their direction?
This is the contradiction at the heart of Christianity. There is the meek and mild Jesus preaching tolerance, as well as the Jesus teaching fire and brimstone.
If it is true that all who don't believe that Jesus is Lord will get burned for eternity, and the faithful will live forever, then what value does life have? I would argue, none. A finite life is meaningless compared to an infinite afterlife. All manners of things are justified in order to minimize the chance of people getting tempted by Satan and the unbelievers.
What I don't understand is, since the Christians believed that unbelievers would be burned for an eternity ANYWAY (for the crime of unbelieving). Why did Christians feel the need to burn people at the stake? All they really did, according to their own theory, is add a couple of minutes to the burning time. What the fuck good is that going to do?
It's as if they thought "This burning for eternity shit is a load. So we better ACTUALLY burn people alive so they will fear actual burning and be coerced into thinking the way we do."
