How do you feel when someone directly tells you ...

[MindForgedManacle]

If people explicitly mean "Go to the place where you'll be infinitely tortured in fire and sulphur" I'd be more offended. But they usually use it more like "Fuck off", so whatevs.

[Lemonvariable72]

I believe you guys are reading into this hell thing what you want to see, I personally have told people if they do not change they will spend an eternity in hell. I've never said it with malice but, with concern or at the very least to support an argument. I say things as my beliefs lead me and one thing my belief tells me is not to be malicious to others. Many here thinks it's okay to use undesirable language against others and I consider that disrespectful and malicious but those who do it don't, they call it freedom of speech, yet when a Christian says to another they are going to hell we somehow cross the bounds of freedom of speech. I've been told to go to hell several times, yet have not heard anyone objecting to it and I certainly haven't raised cane about it.

GC

And that is why we consider you to be a deluded person with a holier then thou attitude. Seriously stop it, you'll get laid more.

[Minimalist]

Other:

I am amused to be threatened in that manner by some asshole who believes in "hell."

[rexbeccarox]

I've never been told that, aside from the snarky "go to hell" insult, but that's not exactly the same as a Christian telling me I'll burn in hell.

I'd probably be offended. I wouldn't dismiss it as silly because I don't believe in a hell, I'd acknowledge that this person talking to me believes it...which means they want to banish me to eternal suffering. That's just fucked up, man.

This. Thanks CSJ.

[Cato]

I voted 'other'. When challenged with this supposed threatening bit of shit...

I look into his/her soul through the eyes and say, "perhaps, but won't you be surprised when you get there and find out I'm in charge".

After that, I am no longer burdened with superficial conversation.

[downbeatplumb]

When I here someone say you are going to hell my main feeling is one of sadness that people still have the medieval mentality that actually thinks it could be real.

This is tempered with the knowledge that it is said with the intent to threaten and intimidate and would work on weaker minded people, so to with that in mind I find it sinister.

[Foxaèr]

It does not affect me any more than any other derogatory epitaph.

Probably the only part of the scenario that does bother me slightly is the theist belief that s/he is making the statement out of genuine concern for the other individual's soul.

There is absolutely nothing genuine or loving in regards to informing someone else that s/he is going to hell.

[Kayenneh]

Personally I couldn't care less, it's a comment that has no validity whatsoever. The thing that worries me, especially if the person saying it to me seems delighted in thinking I'll end up in hell, is that someone could actually wish such a thing upon a fellow human being. I find it cruel, sadistic and unfeeling. Wishing that I would suffer in hell says more about the person making the statement than it says about me.

[pocaracas]

I believe you guys are reading into this hell thing what you want to see, I personally have told people if they do not change they will spend an eternity in hell. I've never said it with malice but, with concern or at the very least to support an argument.

Just this week, a guy told me, over facebook, that I would go to hell, in much the same way that GC, here, is describing...
I replied something along the lines of
"Really? I'm going to hell? Oh, now I'm scared!! Man, trying to make me afraid of something that doesn't exist is just idiot. It's like the fear I don't have of the monsters under my bed."

The wonderful part of this being in portuguese (from Portugal), is that most other people replying were just telling the guy to throw himself of a building, or to give up on the magic cube (he was advocating for some "church of the square gospel", literal translation...)
Poor deluded people... The sad thing is that this "fear" of hell does work on some (or most) of the people out there!

[paulpablo]

I haven't been told I'm going to hell much.

The few times I have been told this I've took it as a joke, I think some of the time they were jokes from what I recall.

Some other times when people have tried to persuade me to join a religion with a vague threat of hell I have generally just thought to myself "Oh no, I'm talking to a nut job and this conversation is going to be annoying and boring"

When I was younger and went to a catholic school I believed whatever the adults told me about hell and so on, but then wondered why they didn't follow the bibles rules themselves so closely, I wasn't insulted by the threat of hell I was pretty scared by it and I always imagined my personal hell to be in a small box with no company and no one to talk to forever.

If I imagine how it would feel to be told this seriously by someone at the age I am now then it would just depend on who the person was, how the statement was presented to me and how I was feeling at the time.

If it was said in an arrogant condescending way I'd be insulted, but this is totally down to the fact I hate arrogant condescending ways of talking, nothing to do with the actual content of the threat.