RE: A "meta-argument" against all future arguments for God's existence ?
March 19, 2022 at 1:43 am
(This post was last modified: March 19, 2022 at 1:44 am by Fake Messiah.)
(March 18, 2022 at 10:20 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: It's pretty obvious that the aim for "God's eternal punishment" is not justice, but control. After all, if the punishment isn't eternal, well shit. Might be worth doing... even if it means a period of discomfort in the afterlife. Not a very good way to control people.
It is a colossal failure that it looks more like some sadist god wants to have his fun because already mentioned Hitler could easily avoid hell if he repented at the end of his life because he was a baptized Christian after all. While 1.2 billion people in India are going straight to hell no matter how "good" they are because they are polytheists who reject Jesus along with the majority of the world population, and even more if Muslims are "right".
But there is absolutely no evidence that hell exists.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"