(May 17, 2020 at 2:43 am)SuicideCommando01 Wrote: Concepts like hell are exactly why im losing more faith in religion and turning more atheist. Some people claim it's justice, really?
Then why not just pick a Christian denomination that doesn't include hell? There are so many Christianities that you can choose the one that suits to what ever you want it to be. There are even Christianities without Jesus. I mean I remember watching that movie "Christmas With Cranks" and there was not one reference to Jesus although it is a Christmas movie. And why not go back to so called pagan religions - which were much better before they added Jesus in it.
Btw there is a Christian preacher called Carlton Pearson who back in 2004, at the height of his career, started preaching that there can't be hell because then God would not be better than Hitler and Stalin - AND his career went down the drain. Christians left his church and he was defrocked, Oral Roberts spoke on TV that Carlton is under the influence of the devil and the whole Roberts family went oral on him, but he still preaches.
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"
