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What is the purpose of an everlasting punishment in hell?
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RE: What is the purpose of an everlasting punishment in hell?
December 2, 2011 at 11:33 am
(December 2, 2011 at 10:46 am)Rhythm Wrote: His monsters and talking animals are real, Aesops are fables, everyone knows that.

Hence the damage that religion causes to otherwise intelligent minds.

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RE: What is the purpose of an everlasting punishment in hell?
December 2, 2011 at 7:53 pm
If God were real, then human beings are more merciful, logical, and sane than he is.

BECAUSE

God's son was killed by mankind according to his own will, God sent his son to earth for the purpose of dying for them....basically by proxy murdering his own child...and as a result decrees that anyone who doesn't accept Jesus is going to burn in hell forever.

Here on Earth a pedophile murders a child (same concept, a child's life ended in a horrible way) and we as humans end the murderers life mercifully by painless lethal injection. Does the sicko deserve worse than that, damn right....but we as humans (at least the decent ones) do not carry out that kind barbarity because we see that it is wrong. Sounds like we should be teaching God, not vice versa.

Mankind's Mercy 1 ~*~ God's Mercy 0.5

Furthermore, why would God invent or allow the existence of Hell and send people there to suffer if he wasn't a little twisted? Does he get off on seeing people suffer? Much like Kip in the Napoleon Dynamite time machine electrocution scene:

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Sounds like the guy needs some professional help.
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RE: What is the purpose of an everlasting punishment in hell?
December 3, 2011 at 11:51 am
Well put.

I hope you take your wisdom to other sites where theists might learn from you.

For evil to grow, all good people need do is nothing.

It is our duty to our fellow man and self protection to correct stupid thinking.

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RE: What is the purpose of an everlasting punishment in hell?
December 3, 2011 at 5:28 pm
(December 3, 2011 at 11:51 am)Greatest I am Wrote: It is our duty to our fellow man and self protection to correct stupid thinking.

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Thanks DL, hehe and sadly it's a never ending task is it lol
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RE: What is the purpose of an everlasting punishment in hell?
December 3, 2011 at 10:14 pm
"It is our duty to our fellow man and self protection to correct stupid thinking."

Bullshit.


We have neither the moral/legal obligation nor the right.

I can of course see why you would want to do that; it must be really annoying seeing one's own faults reflected back from others.
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RE: What is the purpose of an everlasting punishment in hell?
December 4, 2011 at 12:11 am (This post was last modified: December 4, 2011 at 12:16 am by Greatest I am.)
(December 3, 2011 at 5:28 pm)LarissaAnn Wrote:
(December 3, 2011 at 11:51 am)Greatest I am Wrote: It is our duty to our fellow man and self protection to correct stupid thinking.

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Thanks DL, hehe and sadly it's a never ending task is it lol

Check the stats. We are growing and they are shrinking.
If we let up, they grow.
It is not for you or I. It is for our children and grandchildren.

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(December 3, 2011 at 10:14 pm)padraic Wrote: "It is our duty to our fellow man and self protection to correct stupid thinking."

Bullshit.


We have neither the moral/legal obligation nor the right.

I can of course see why you would want to do that; it must be really annoying seeing one's own faults reflected back from others.

If we had never corrected each other, we would still be in the trees.
I see that some of us still belong there.
I guess that you do not expect or have children or grandchildren. With your self-centered ways, this is good. You would not be a fit parent.

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