(August 9, 2013 at 8:20 am)Esquilax Wrote: If you're afraid of going to hell, OP, let me ask you this: how much time have you seriously spent worrying about all the other hells you could be going to? Even when you believed, how much energy did you spend biting your nails at the thought of the muslim hell you could be landing in? Or all those little offshoot christian groups that believe anyone who doesn't think like them is hellbound, how often did you concern yourself with the possibility that they were right?
Once you realize that the answer is probably not at all, it may help resolve your lingering fears of yet another fictional stick, to theism's equally fictional carrot.
I look at it this way. Once you realize that something that was supposedly offered to you in love (christianity and god so called love) was actually not really and was offered in fear or rather to make you fear why would you still want to follow that god even if he was real.
You believed your loving god because you were scared of him not because you loved him so how loyal could you really have been and if you are not really that loyal and it seems you are here in this place why bother being afraid of hell. Give it the finger seriously.
