[split] The word 'Nigger' and other slurs

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I don't know what a Poe is. I learned about hell growing up at Pentecostal Church. We spoke in you tongues and learned of God's grace and the fall of man. Hell is the place those who do not accept salvation through Christ choose to go. If you do not want to be ravaged by demons then read the bible and accept Jesus into your soul. You will be amazed at how wonderful your life will become.

I'm going to address this "choose to go to hell," idea, right now: I am, as of this moment, choosing not to go to hell when I die. I don't want to go.

Oh, what's that? Simply making the choice isn't enough? There's some actions I need to perform too? Then it's not really the simple choice you're trying to phrase it as, is it?

See, that's the thing: regardless of the choice I'm consciously making, where I end up is ultimately out of my hands, in your system. What if I don't want to go to either heaven or hell? Oh, I can't do that, the system is binary? So now I'm trapped between two choices, neither of which I've opted to put myself in, and neither of which I necessarily want. How is it you can push the idea that this is something freely chose, then?

If someone else imposed a dichotomous choice on you, say... a mugger threatens to stab you if you don't hand over your wallet, would you say you freely chose to hand over your wallet?

Same deal here. Same deal here.