God Loves Me, Too

[Neo-Scholastic]

...if you do not have sex before you are married? You could be making a terrible mistake!

Only if you think sex is the most important part of a married relationship.

Atheists always say,"Yes but I can be good without God." But these same people, generally, are not good because they love God or their neighbor as themselves. Their good is self-referential and not true good. They are good only to secure their own benefit, i.e. tit for tat, and are motivated only by preserving earthly goods. They love themselves and the things of this world, like reputation, material gain, and hedonistic pleasures.

Hell is hell, in part because the good refuse to define their lives by love of self and the world. People in Hell choose to go and remain there because they continue to pursue what they believe are the highest goods. They believe falsities are truths and evils are goods because they do not believe in God. And if asked, they would say they like it there because they get to pursue all the things they loved in life, even though they fail to attain them, since it places them in constant conflict with the other residents of Hell.

Despite this, God's mercy extends even into the depths of Hell. First, he does not take away free-will or intellect, since these are what make us human. Secondly, He prevents people in Hell from totally destroying each other from their need to control and use each other in the pursuit of what the mistakenly believe is good and true.