So ive recently been thinking about something rather strange
im not sure if there will be any practical use or application but it is an interesting thought experiment (well at least to me it is)
regarding Christianity, the most common belief is that non believers are sent to hell to rot for all of eternity
now suppose we have person A, who is a christian, and person B who is a psychopathic atheist hell bent on ruining lives -- forever
person B, through nefarious and ingenious plans, captures person A and takes person A to a place where they cannot be ever found
person B proceeds to torture person A using the most sick and depraved methods, but always keeping person A alive.
now comes the interesting part
through methods of torture such as physical torture, psychological torture and all of those methods, person B attempts to make person A's life so bad that person A loses faith in there being a god-- due to the amount of suffering he is receiving
this may take a while, but being a human being who can only take so much torture, person A, maybe after 2 weeks or maybe after 46 years, has a high chance of losing faith in religion.
if person B connects person A to a lie detector, or something which can detect lies, the moment person A loses faith, stops believing in god, person B kills person A
in such a scenario, by the direct involvement and influence of person B, person A is now sent to hell for all of eternity even though he did nothing wrong except lose faith in his god after 46 years of severe torture.
i find this interesting because if this thought experiment could be feasibly carried out in real life, a person could potentially send a lot of believers to hell even though they did not do anything wrong.
feedback would be appreciated on this topic (:
a similar but more boring case could be killing new born babies who are not yet old enough to believe in god and thus sending all of those innocent souls into hell but thats less interesting than this one by far
im not sure if there will be any practical use or application but it is an interesting thought experiment (well at least to me it is)
regarding Christianity, the most common belief is that non believers are sent to hell to rot for all of eternity
now suppose we have person A, who is a christian, and person B who is a psychopathic atheist hell bent on ruining lives -- forever
person B, through nefarious and ingenious plans, captures person A and takes person A to a place where they cannot be ever found
person B proceeds to torture person A using the most sick and depraved methods, but always keeping person A alive.
now comes the interesting part
through methods of torture such as physical torture, psychological torture and all of those methods, person B attempts to make person A's life so bad that person A loses faith in there being a god-- due to the amount of suffering he is receiving
this may take a while, but being a human being who can only take so much torture, person A, maybe after 2 weeks or maybe after 46 years, has a high chance of losing faith in religion.
if person B connects person A to a lie detector, or something which can detect lies, the moment person A loses faith, stops believing in god, person B kills person A
in such a scenario, by the direct involvement and influence of person B, person A is now sent to hell for all of eternity even though he did nothing wrong except lose faith in his god after 46 years of severe torture.
i find this interesting because if this thought experiment could be feasibly carried out in real life, a person could potentially send a lot of believers to hell even though they did not do anything wrong.
feedback would be appreciated on this topic (:
a similar but more boring case could be killing new born babies who are not yet old enough to believe in god and thus sending all of those innocent souls into hell but thats less interesting than this one by far
