free will paradox

[Esquilax]

Well to me Esq, if you do bad stuff, you reap the reward = hell. You seem to be offloading the blame.

By "hell", I mean the just reward for doing bad stuff. In secularism that's a little less obvious. The law isn't always seen to exact justice. But you suffer personally in other ways, if only in your own negativity < it's own punishment.

God = good. Love is God. You deliberately turn that on its head to justify your disbelief. You're fighting with yourself. Remove your prejudice from this (God), and you'd agree with me I'm sure.

Except that I don't do bad things. I've never committed a crime, never even gotten a speeding ticket. I do good by my family, I contribute to charity, I volunteer my time teaching people to read; I'm not brash enough to label myself a good person, but I'm not exactly a bad one, now am I?

But according to the precepts of most any religion I'm going to hell anyway, simply because I don't believe. Or because I've slept with a few men in the past. Or hell, because I've violated any number of arbitrary rules (I'll admit, I've worked on the sabbath before.)

Because it's not really about being a good person, is it? It's about bowing down and prostrating yourself toward an idea. I'm not a negative person, I'm very happy, content in my life and all that. It's not a matter of negativity here, and honestly, this whole "God is love" thing comes across to me as Stockholm Syndrome.

To be clear: God is not love. He's going to burn me for eternity- or any period of time, I get the feeling you disagree it's eternal but the time isn't the point- for not prostrating myself before him. This is not a loving action, and it's been repeated countless times throughout the ages, if one believes the bible. It's sick.