(September 14, 2010 at 11:07 am)tackattack Wrote: @Entropist- Where exactly does the Bible (foundations of most of the Abrahamic religions) teach anyhting about eternal pain? Please be specific.
No, I'm not going to drudge up Bible quotes, however different Christian sects certainly have different interpretations of the afterlife-- for some, hell is everlasting, then you get others who claim hell is annihilation, or some sort of metaphorical "separation from the Christian god," and there are those few that believe there is no hell, but only heaven. Then for Catholics you can add Purgatory to the mix. You can mix and match all sorts of other variations. Whatever. All of them claim to base this on the Bible and have their own silly interpretations for all of these silly beliefs in a silly book. Why should I sift through all of them yet again?
Suffice it to say that there is the assumption that the preservation of the self is an unquestionable good within the Abrahamic religions-- and of course along with that assumption comes the preference for an eternal pleasure rather than eternal pain. Why any self-conscious individual would want to live forever is beyond me. Personally I think its sick.
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