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RE: How do you deal with people who tell you you'll burn in hell?
February 8, 2015 at 11:12 pm
(February 8, 2015 at 10:42 pm)Beccs Wrote: I usually ask them if they're ready for Ragnarrok.
This one is pretty good
Or I could say "That depends on which god is true --- Are you [going to hell]?"
Everytime I tell a believer god doesn't exist --> Not the statement "I don't believe" but really saying "God doesn't exist" as a factual statement pisses them off pretty badly and they are like "OH CAN YOU SAY THAT YOU DON'T HAVE PROOF YOU ARE DISRESPECTFUL GOD HATES YOU" etc etc
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RE: How do you deal with people who tell you you'll burn in hell?
February 8, 2015 at 11:17 pm
(This post was last modified: February 8, 2015 at 11:18 pm by robvalue.)
I say, I'll see you there, in Islam hell!
But yeah, it's not cool to be threatened with it. It's just rude, and I would tell people that. If they persisted I'd ignore them and have nothing more to do with them. In this case, the guy sounded more respectful though and asked your opinion. You gave a great answer. It's a ludicrous concept from any angle.
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RE: How do you deal with people who tell you you'll burn in hell?
February 8, 2015 at 11:39 pm
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
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RE: How do you deal with people who tell you you'll burn in hell?
February 8, 2015 at 11:48 pm
Methinks GC's been drinking...
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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RE: How do you deal with people who tell you you'll burn in hell?
February 8, 2015 at 11:54 pm
"Blow me" usually does the trick.
Also, even a Steelers fan can be right on occasion; GC is obviously knackered.
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RE: How do you deal with people who tell you you'll burn in hell?
February 9, 2015 at 1:47 am
I laugh at them. If I'm inspired that I'm more afraid of the smell of my own poop than the fire and brimstone of their loving myths.
“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
Epicurus
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RE: How do you deal with people who tell you you'll burn in hell?
February 9, 2015 at 2:27 am
Tell them there is such a thing as mental therapy and explain why they might benefit from it.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza
