My close encounter with a Facebook xtian

[Drich]

Just recently I seem to have inadvertantly sparked a little feud over a comment I left on this Facebook picture:



I recycled an idea that I'm sure I used hereabouts at some point, namely

According to the mythology, Hell is supposed to be a place created by Yahweh deep under the Earth. The deepest you can get would be the planet core, made of iron. Which, coincidentally, Yahweh is powerless against. And this idiot is meant to be in charge of the Universe? I wouldn't trust it in charge of a bottle of piss.

It's just absird to me that Yahweh not only creates this impenetrable fortress made from the one thing it's powerless against, but also installs its mortal enemy in this realm and then spends the rest of eternity stocking it with what is essentially an ever-growing army of 'evil' and embittered souls. It'd be like if we'd set Osama bin Laden up on an island rich in plutonium and uranium deosits and then kept banishing all those terror suspects and extremist clerics to it. Not exactly the brightest bulb in the ideas box.

Anyway, as well as attracting nineteen upthumbs and a reply saying "[Stimbo], thanks for that. I'd never really seen that angle!", I also attracted this little rehashed nugget:

Totally false [Stimbo]. Hell is a spiritual place of torment and the absence of God.

I know. Yawn.

So being rather spoiled for choice on the angles to take, I went with:

Then, [name], you have created your own mythology. Congratulations; keep that up and pretty soon you'll have divorced yourself from the tyranny of xtian dogma altogether.

As for the "absence of god" thing, I already exist quite happily without the need for any god anyway. So the absence of something already absent is hardly a threat to me.

So far that's it; whether this lady bothers to follow up her remark remains to be seen of course. I know this hardly even rates as small potatoes as these things go. If I get a chance I'd like to go in sort of the direction of "God sends people to hell primarily for the unpardonable sin of not being gullible enough to blindly accept the least credible authorities" or words to that effect. Still early days but any comments/suggestions would be useful.

What if she askes you to provide Book Chapter and verse for you to proove your interpertation of the "orginal mythology?"