(June 28, 2017 at 11:30 am)alpha male Wrote:(June 27, 2017 at 6:08 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: Sounds like the kind of God to me that would enjoy hearing the shrieks and gnashing of teeth of the damned, and folks that don't might not find favor in His gaze.
Too bad for your desired view that there's that pesky verse which explicitly says that He doesn't take pleasure in the death of the wicked.
Look, doofus, the goodness of a being should be inversely proportional to the degree of the evil they commit. The creation and implementation of an eternal torture chamber is literally the worst possible thing imaginable. Go ahead, think of something worse. The worse pain, endlessly. Got something to top that? Didn't think so. So, if this being is the perpetrator of this worst-possible-thing-imaginable, there's literally no good they can possibly do that will ever do anything but balance them out to a net 'zero' level of neutrality between good or evil. Unless, of course, they rescinded that evil idea (hard to imagine something as prideful as a god going, "Oops, total bonehead, dick move on my part there, sorry, folks.") But good luck getting a consensus on that. So the fact that he can make someone like you believe that he takes no pleasure in it, matters less than no fucks. The fact that it was conceived of as a 'just' punishment for anything, ANYTHING a lowly, imperfect, ignorant and frightened mortal could possibly do in their limited lifespan, is INCONTROVERTIBLE FUCKING PROOF that this being is a malicious fucking sadist with no sense of mercy or proportion. Let that be a reflection on you, you piece of rotting ass garbage. You want to look better in the eyes of actual decent human beings? Kick that fucker to the curb and take a giant shit on it while you're at it. Otherwise? Go find someone else mentally ill to fall deeper into your madness and leave the rest of us to actually making the world a better place and cleaning up your fucking messes.
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.