God, Christianity, Control, & Fear

[ecolox]

So, yeah, the Bible mentions a place of fire and brimstone, says that God has the power to send you there, and says that it's a place reserved for those who sin and rebel against Him. I bolded "dead bodies" because those "dead" bodies are being tortured, so apparently "death" in the Bible means eternal torment

Revelation does settle that huh? I guess eternal torment is fair if a soul is set on being eternally sinful and rebellious. You do understand that eternal sin and rebellion means endless evil (which deserves endless punishment)? On earth you may only do a finite amount of evil deeds, but you have the attitude to do such deeds forever, perhaps?

Meh, Christians are always saying that he committed the ultimate sacrifice, but is it really a sacrifice if all he did was suffer for a few hours before living for an eternity in paradise? A true sacrifice, I think, would be to share the punishment he reserves for the unbelievers... eternal damnation.

You act like getting spat on, beaten, and killed when you don't deserve it is easy. He had to do it all through faith too, I think.
Sending Jesus to eternal damnation would only be sadistic, just what we'd expect you to want.

I can't speak for Caecilian, but I can give you my opinion on the matter. Christians themselves are not sick, evil, and twisted (well, most of them anyway), but a lot of the religion's teachings are. Christians generally take the good stuff and ignore the bad, but if you pick up the Bible you'll notice a lot of bad, like the concept of hell. A being who is willing to dole out eternal punishments for any crime, no matter how grave, is certainly not benevolent. I would even call such a being malevolent.

You're crazy, Hell isn't 'bad'. God doles out eternal punishments for eternally rebellious/evil subjects. That's perfectly fair and just. It's just what we'd expect of a purely good God.