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Do you still fear hell?

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Do you still fear hell?
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#21
RE: Do you still fear hell?
July 11, 2016 at 8:15 pm
In a word:

No.
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RE: Do you still fear hell?
July 11, 2016 at 8:18 pm
Never feared it in the first place.

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RE: Do you still fear hell?
July 11, 2016 at 8:35 pm
No, I've never feared hell nor death. What is there to fear?
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#24
RE: Do you still fear hell?
July 11, 2016 at 8:59 pm
As a former Hindu, I didn't believe in a personal hell. I was raised Christian, but hell never bothered me. I outgrew Christianity sometime in my youth. Hell never left much of an impression on me. It was just something you'd say. "Go to hell." "Burn in hell." It never meant much to me.
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RE: Do you still fear hell?
July 11, 2016 at 8:59 pm
(July 11, 2016 at 5:01 pm)Lucifer Wrote: I have feared hell a lot, not just for myself, but (perhaps more) for friends (some of whom weren't christian), family and just for humans in general (because I did not want anyone to go there). It motivated a lot of my behavior. 

When I was doubting a lot, I was more afraid for my own salvation. When I lost my faith, there was still a bit of a lingering fear, because it was ingrained so deep in my from my childhood.

Now, 3 years after my deconversion, I have zero fear of hell left. None at all, I have no reason to take the possibility of it's existence seriously.

I sympathize with those with even stronger religious indoctrination, who have been threatened with hell throughout their lives and who still have vivid fears of hell decades after their deconversion. It is a terrible thing to do to your child.

So, do you still fear hell? How long did it take to get rid of it, or for those who didn't, how long ago was your deconversion?

No, I don't still fear hell. I did when I was a kid. One Easter, my grandma's car broke down so we didn't go to Mass and I remember asking my mom if we would go to hell because we missed church and she said "no".

There are a few things in real life, on earth, in the here and now that I fear but not an imaginary hell made up by storytellers.
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RE: Do you still fear hell?
July 11, 2016 at 9:10 pm
I never really believed in a god, so I always thought the concept was heinously ridiculous.

I'm sure the fear of it will pass the further away from religion you get. You have to untangle your mind from all the baggage and emotional/mental blackmail that comes with religion.
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RE: Do you still fear hell?
July 11, 2016 at 9:35 pm
Not in particular...the idea of not being with my family after I die did scare me but the idea didn't hold up since the mormon idea of hell is a special subject. But I did fear a lot on the idea of "being an apostate," losing the spirit, falling away from god, and being in Satan's grasp. Now that is the nonsense that tormented me for a minute. And my deconversation was !.5 years ago and it took until just about a month ago to let go of all that "Satan has got me" rubbish.
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RE: Do you still fear hell?
July 12, 2016 at 12:20 am
Nope. Hell makes absolutely 0 sense.
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RE: Do you still fear hell?
July 12, 2016 at 12:22 am
Not in the slightest.
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#30
RE: Do you still fear hell?
July 12, 2016 at 12:24 am
Hell is not real, so there is nothing to fear.
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