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.

  • groucho@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    If god made himself known in an undeniable way tomorrow, and if he confirmed the heaven/hell thing, I’d still choose hell. An eternity with a being that arbitrarily sends people to eternal torment, singing his praises, is my personal hell.