Humans have a pretty good ability to normalize whatever they're being put through, as long as it doesn't kill them.
Since we can't really know what an eternal mind without a body would be like, it's all hypothetical. Supposedly we can feel pain, despite some people having conditions where they can't feel pain but supposedly still have a soul attached. Maybe I could still feel pain, and I won't eventually get used to being on fire after hundreds or thousands of years, and I won't be mentally reduced to a shell where I just lay where I'm at in a state of comatose shock.
It's impossible to tell, since it's untestable. Hell itsself is really just a scare tactic. You can describe hell in whatever way will make the person fear it. I've heard people say the lake is really only there for Satan and the angels that followed him. If you're thrown in, your soul just gets destroyed and you cease to exist. Unfortunately threatening cessation of existence, or just eternal separation from Yahweh, isn't going to sway an atheist. Or someone who believes in a different god who rewards and pounishes as (s)he sees fit.
Since we can't really know what an eternal mind without a body would be like, it's all hypothetical. Supposedly we can feel pain, despite some people having conditions where they can't feel pain but supposedly still have a soul attached. Maybe I could still feel pain, and I won't eventually get used to being on fire after hundreds or thousands of years, and I won't be mentally reduced to a shell where I just lay where I'm at in a state of comatose shock.
It's impossible to tell, since it's untestable. Hell itsself is really just a scare tactic. You can describe hell in whatever way will make the person fear it. I've heard people say the lake is really only there for Satan and the angels that followed him. If you're thrown in, your soul just gets destroyed and you cease to exist. Unfortunately threatening cessation of existence, or just eternal separation from Yahweh, isn't going to sway an atheist. Or someone who believes in a different god who rewards and pounishes as (s)he sees fit.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/
Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50
A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/
Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50
A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html