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Poll: How offended do you feel when someone says that you're going to Hell?
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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%
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How do you feel when someone directly tells you ...
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RE: How do you feel when someone directly tells you ...
(October 30, 2013 at 7:22 pm)Esquilax Wrote: I tend to take it as it's meant: whether we find it ridiculous or not- and I do- it's still clearly a threat or an insult. Childish and eye-rollingly insipid as it is, there's no way to interpret it so that the person saying it has good intentions toward us.

I know the words are silly, but the words aren't the things that are going to inform the actions of the person saying them; the sentiment behind them is. At the very least, every threat of hell is coming from a person who is currently being a dick.

I was going to post my own response, but this. This is about how I feel.
Plus throw in a dash of indignance at their obvious superiority complex and I'ma call it a day.
If I were to create self aware beings knowing fully what they would do in their lifetimes, I sure wouldn't create a HELL for the majority of them to live in infinitely! That's not Love, that's sadistic. Therefore a truly loving god does not exist!

Quote:The sin is against an infinite being (God) unforgiven infinitely, therefore the punishment is infinite.

Dead wrong.  The actions of a finite being measured against an infinite one are infinitesimal and therefore merit infinitesimal punishment.

Quote:Some people deserve hell.

I say again:  No exceptions.  Punishment should be equal to the crime, not in excess of it.  As soon as the punishment is greater than the crime, the punisher is in the wrong.

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RE: How do you feel when someone directly tells you ... - by Mystical - November 6, 2013 at 6:44 am

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