RE: Abraham, Isaac, and a Dead Toddler
June 12, 2014 at 8:13 am
(This post was last modified: June 12, 2014 at 8:13 am by Cyberman.)
(June 11, 2014 at 8:11 pm)Lek Wrote: This makes me laugh when atheists say they would rather experience unabated torment in hell than unabated happiness in heaven.
It makes me laugh when people of the faith say that atheists are deserving of unabated torment in hell simply by virtue of the fact that we don't share your beliefs. If there truly is a just god and it really is as it's often described (perfectly moral etc), that attitude right there is surely a one-way ticket to this hell of which you speak.
And why should anyone in hell be tormented anyway? God isn't around to do the work, and the devil surely isn't going to do it - it's going to reward people who acted against your god, seeing as it's your god's rival. What, I'm going to do my enemy's job for him and punish you for crimes against him? I'd want my head read.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
