(August 26, 2015 at 11:39 am)Drich Wrote:(August 26, 2015 at 10:35 am)Crossless1 Wrote: The problem with Drich's train analogy is that we aren't paying passengers who knowingly, willingly boarded the hell-bound train. It's more like we were shoved into the cattle car (born) on its way to Auschwitz (Hell). And the words that greet us as we near the destination are not the Nazi lie that work will make us free; they are the Christian lie that faith and the proper set of beliefs (not works) will make us free. They attribute this lie to their god, insist that it is the bedrock truth of the universe, and dare to call it love.
Again we were all born live and will die on this train. In that way The train becomes the model of existence. the reason the analogy works is because a train can only go where the train tracks lead. in the analogy the tracks/our lives automatically lead to hell.
Someone surveys the land, lays the tracks, and determines the destination of the line. It certainly can't be the ones born on the train.
