And Hells come back to haunt me

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The statement was a child.

My bad. I took it to mean progeny rather than a literal child

What?

If you wouldn't throw your child on fire, why would you burn them for all eternity?

Ah, here we go with semantics again, the original meaning of church is a body of Christian believers. They had no buildings at first, you need to study scripture.

Close, but no cigar. The word you're thinking of is "ecclesia" stemming from the greek word "ekklesia", which refers to an assembly or congregation. Church is derived from "kuriakos" and a rough translation of which is "belonging to the lord". The word was applied to christian temples. It's an easy mistake to make though, most modern bibles incorrectly translate "ekklesia" as "church", because the words have become conflated over time.

Tori's answer was perfectly acceptable. You're the one that's playing semantics. And you lost.

Not to be too picky, but over here, in Greece, Ekklesia means Church. You learn the word pretty quickly the moment you ask anyone for directions. They use churches over here like they use pubs in England (go straight down the road - turn left at St. Nikolas head down to St. Tryfonas and its 2 roads past that on the left hand side kind of thing.)