RE: Why did god allow people to be born after the fall ?
November 6, 2017 at 5:05 pm
(This post was last modified: November 6, 2017 at 5:06 pm by Harry Nevis.)
(November 6, 2017 at 3:21 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Just FYI, God doesn't "torture" people in Hell. Hell is a state of being where you make a conscious decision to turn away from God in the next life. And in doing so, you turn away from everything that is good and beautiful. When you don't have the physical world to distract you, you're left with nothing if not the love and goodness you rejected. The suffering comes from the emptiness of that, not from little horned men being ordered by God to burn you with torches.
Many christians disagree.
(November 6, 2017 at 3:29 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(November 6, 2017 at 2:32 pm)Astreja Wrote: The reason that the hell concept is a deal-breaker for me regarding the Christian god is that I can actually emphasize with people trapped in hell. Where is that empathy in the people defending the actions of that god?
Why do so many people defend the schoolyard bully and claim that the beat-up kid had it coming, rather than calling out the bully?
Even though i dont believe in the fire and brimstone version of hell you are presenting here, if that is how it was and someone like Hitler was there, id have a hard time feeling sorry for him. Or seeing him as a victim of bullying. Itd be pretty ironic to see him as a beat up kid or victim of bullying considering what he did in those concentration camps to millions of innocent people and families.
I feel the same way about your god.
"The last superstition of the human mind is the superstition that religion in itself is a good thing." - Samuel Porter Putnam
