People who believe in Hell try to absolve their construct of God from that monstrosity by talking as if he had nothing to do with it. They talk as if the existence of such a “place” were somehow beyond his ability to control. “God doesn’t send people to Hell,” they assure themselves, “people choose to go there; they send themselves.” Uh huh. I have two main responses to that. The first is to point out that their desire to absolve God from this atrocity doesn’t come from the Bible, in case they thought it did. The second thing has to do with the impossibility of that task.
My favorite way people try to do it is to insist that hell isn’t infinite. “It’s not an eternity of torture, it’s just 5,000,000 years of it.”
Or better yet, “It’s not constant torture. You get breaks!”
How is it that humans are capable of recognizing that any amount of torture is immoral, but the alleged Source of all morality isn’t?
They say you get breaks? I’ve never heard that one lol
Yeah, I forget which apologist argues that one, but they usually couple it with the “people choose to go there/stay there” argument.