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Poll: How offended do you feel when someone says that you're going to Hell? This poll is closed.
Hell, for me, sounds like a lovely place, so I take that as a compliment.	3.77%	2	3.77%
I feel not a speck of insult.	18.87%	10	18.87%
It's definitely a personal attack, but still it doesn't really offend me that much.	35.85%	19	35.85%
I do feel quite offended actually. I don't like to hear that.	7.55%	4	7.55%
I feel greatly offended.	1.89%	1	1.89%
Other (please explain in your post how you feel)	32.08%	17	32.08%
Total		53 vote(s)	100%

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November 5, 2013 at 5:00 pm

(November 5, 2013 at 1:33 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote:
(November 5, 2013 at 3:18 am)ToriJ Wrote: Hell was used as a scare tactic to make me behave as a child. That there was a strike against me every time I did something wrong. Because of this I actually used to have nightmares of God killing me. It seriously scarred me as a child and is the sole reason I have hung on to such beliefs for the longest time. It doesn't just offend me. It pisses me off.

I used to feel the same way, that God struck a tally mark every time I did something wrong, and being raised Catholic was taught that if you die with an unconfessed mortal sin on your soul, then you go straight to hell, doesn't matter about all the good things you did in your life. You could be a kind, caring person, but play with your willy one night and then get hit by a car the next morning, you're down there burning with the devil for eternity. I'm just glad I was able to overcome such nonsense brainwashing without any neuroses.

I agree, that's no way to teach children and, in my church that does not go on, I can't say what might happen at home, but by the way the children talk it doesn't happen there either. You guys are quick to condemn all Christians when in truth there are many who would agree with you that scaring children with hell is inappropriate, children just can't understand hell at a young age. I believe that most who leave the faith have been taught that way and I for one think it's shameful they were taught that way.
The Catholic Church teaches many wrong ideas about God and His justice, the Catholic Church teaches much that is wrong actually. Please do not base other denominations on their teachings, the protestant church and the Catholic Church are as different as night and day. Though I know a few protestant churches that believe if one commits any sin and does not ask for forgiveness before one dies you're bound for hell. I say to them what good did it do for Christ to die if we can not make mistakes, I thought that's why He died. Please do not misunderstand what I'm saying, Christians are to live as sinless as possible.

GC

God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.

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