New to the truth

[Mudhammam]

Hi everyone. I'm a newbie to this forum also I just recently within the last year let go of theism. I'm 27 and since I was around 21 I have felt strong doubts about "GOD" but I also had strong fears like what if I'm wrong I don't want an eternity of torture. It took a friend to bring me to the light "the true light" and how simple it was to convince me to let go of "hell" the only thing keeping me in the dark. He asked me a fairly simple question. He said "if there were someone you truly viewed as an enemy?" and yes a few people came to mind. He then said "take the one person you dislike the most if you had the chance would you send them to an imaginary burning Island full of serial killers and where you die every night and wake up alive every morning?" sounded like a horrible place to me and not somewhere I would wish anyone to be" He then said "well then if you think about it you are a better person then God because unless you devote your self completely to him he would send you there in a hurry. And while that didn't really disprove the existence of hell to me it did take away the fear because even if and that's a black hole sized even if but if I am wrong I'll go to hell knowing I am a better being then my judge. And if I'm better then him then he cannot be "the lord" oh and the fact that the center of the earth is molten iron pretty much makes every other theism claim almost laughable.

If you're like me, and it sounds like we've had similar journeys from faith to reason, you'll find that the idea of hell gradually becomes less and less threatening, eventually realizing that it was such an absurdly illogical concept to begin with. You might even begin to laugh at the thought that people still take it seriously.