"love thy neighbour as thyself" link to "Mercy to all" vs "Justice to some"

[Welsh cake]

Now I don't have too much of a problem with hell for super evil people

If you're a humanist you should. Any way you slice it, infinite torture for finite crime is abominable.

In the Bible, there is a line "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."

Terrible advice from goat-herders. Some people have low self-esteem and others occupied with self-hatred and self-destructive tendencies. It all goes to show life isn't as black and white as some people assume.

Now when people do something wrong, everyone wants to be forgiven by God. No one wants God to punish them. Everyone doesn't want to be tortured.

When you say everyone do you mean every Christian or every Muslim? A little clarity please.

God's love should even be greater then self-love. He should love us in a better way then we love of ourselves. His love is suppose to the most highest form of love. Therefore it stands to reason that his love will compel him to have mercy and compassion, instead of seeking to retribute some people with justice.

So this God created the universe and dragged conscious mortal life-forms doomed to die into existence in the ultimate act of selfishness? I wouldn't call that the "highest form of love". That kind of God, if it exists, I want nothing to do with. It deserves no pleasure or happiness.

My natural feelings towards evil people is that of vengeance and wanting retribution, and that of hate. However, I find compassion and mercy and forgiveness and forbearance to be more beautiful.

I'd give murderers the death-penalty regardless and say good riddance. Less of a burden on tax-payer's money that way.

If we apply this to the disbeliever situation, you should ask yourself, if you are in the wrong religion, do you want to be punished for it?

Atheism is not a religion. The question is unintelligible, please rephrase into something sensible.

Therefore - I feel - with the princple that we should try as much as possible to love others like we love ourselves - and that our love is a lower manifestation of the highest love - God

The same god that created Cymothoa exigua, Smallpox, Wolbachia, Ebola, Cordyceps fungi, Marburg, Influenza, Sacculina, Measles, Leucochloridium paradoxum, Mumps, Clostridium botulinum, Rabies, Candiru, SARS, Vandellia cirrhosa, Fatal Familial Insomnia, Hepatitis C, Mosquitos, Dracunculus, Yellow fever, Loa loa, Plasmodium vivax, Ampulex compressa, Toxoplasma gondii, and many more?

Fuck him.