Poor Fundies.....Hell is A Literary Construct, Too!

[Neo-Scholastic]

Are you equating the detriment from a hard drug addiction to living life as an atheist?

I wanted to relate in to something real in my own life rather than make-up something. That was what came to mind. So while it's not the best analogy, I would say in response, if anything, atheism is more like a gateway drug in the sense that allows one to rationalize letting deeper sins into one's life or not recognizing ones' current sins. "If life is just a meaningless electro-chemical reaction then why not _____?" I think the threat of an purely intellectual atheism is relatively minor, since most retain some sense of goodness and truth without realizing the source. But the anti-theist, the kind that pisses and moans about "In God We Trust" on money*, has a real problem and he undermines the faith of the vulnerable.

To be fair, a twisted person can justify all kinds of horrors with a perverted interpretation of even the most benign faith. Which only goes to show that there are many ways to fail and few to succeed.

...the hard truth opens you up to how others perceive and feel about it.

Touche.

*I could care less myself about what's on the money, its just money.