Do you find the teaching of eternal damnation thoroughly repulsive and the epitome of unjust?

[Spiderman]

I cringe and grit my teeth with disgust that God would do this to people I know that aren't bad people. Their crime is they don't believe in God or accept the wrong Gods and don't accept Jesus.
So, you don't find the teaching that people will be tossed about in flames while their agonizing flesh is devoured by worms, wailing and gnashing their teeth for eternity, to be disgusting?

What is their crime for receiving such an eternity of torture? Well, not believing in this God that hides himself and refuses to say a word, not accepting Jesus as their Lord and Savior. (Excuse me while I vomit!)

We have a book that divides people and contradicts itself that Christians can't agree on it's interpretation, and that is what we have to save souls from this eternity of torture. I see people on the road to Hell every day and what do I have as a life-preserver to try and save some of these drowning people, but a book full of contradictions and easily verifiable falsehoods. I HAVE NOTHING TO OFFER THESE PEOPLE!

God won't speak up. He's watching people die and go to Hell daily and could save the souls of so many atheists by simply speaking up, and he refuses. And he will have people tortured forever and ever and ever for not believing in him. You don't find that unjust and thoroughly repulsive?? *Barf!*

 

[Kirran]

I voted Yes, but to be honest I just see no chance of it being true. As far as I am concerned, I know God is Love, and that God deeply and totally loves his creation. This doesn't fit with that.

 

[Father Heathen]

Justice is when the punishment is porportionate to the crime, thus everlasting torture is infinitely excessive and therefore unjust. If there is a god, I believe that they would be a being of pure love and pure logic, therefore anything devoid of reason or compassion could not be of god, which of course rules out the concept of eternal damnation. Besides, isn't the point of punishment supposed to be to teach, correct, and rehabilitate? Otherwise it's simply for the sake of sadistic gratification, which paints god as a rather vile, grotesque being.

 

[Spiderman]

I voted No, but to be honest I just see no chance of it being true. As far as I am concerned, I know God is Love, and that God deeply and totally loves his creation. This doesn't fit with that.

I hope you are right about that. I place all my hope in your belief being true Otherwise, I could never love a God responsible for such depressing cruelty and injustice

 

[Rival]

HaShem doesn't send people to hell forever.

 

[Spiderman]

Justice is when the punishment is porportionate to the crime, thus everlasting torture is infinitely excessive and therefore unjust. If there is a god, I believe that they would be a being of pure love and pure logic, therefore anything devoid of reason or compassion could not be of god, which of course rules out the concept of eternal damnation.

Amen brother Heathen! That was a pearl!

 

[Quintessence]

Truly? I just don't care. I don't care enough about this story that is told for it to upset me to such an extent. So I voted no.

 

[Vinayaka]

I voted no, because I don't see anything as unjust. It's just a POV that some people hold, and for me personally, a false one. I don't see differing POVs in the light of disgust. Immaturity, under clouds of anava, sure.

 

[George-ananda]

The only reason I don't get repulsed is because I no longer give the idea serious consideration.

 

[Kirran]

I hope you are right about that. I place all my hope in your belief being true Otherwise, I could never love a God responsible for such depressing cruelty and injustice

Shame you live in one of those foreign countries, I'd invite you to Skanda Vale...

 

[Spiderman]

Truly? I just don't care. I don't care enough about this story that is told for it to upset me to such an extent. So I voted no.

I hope I can reach a point where I don't care but it has been so drilled into me.

 

[Spiderman]

Shame you live in one of those foreign countries, I'd invite you to Skanda Vale...

Looks incredibly solemn...I could live there for a lifetime!

 

[Spiderman]

The only reason I don't get repulsed is because I no longer give the idea serious consideration.

What about if you hear people talk about it? It doesn't upset you? I'm sorry, it just drives me nuts! You guys are more mature and mentally sound than I am.

 

[Kirran]

Looks incredibly solemn...I could live there for a lifetime!

I wouldn't go that far Not all that solemn - and spending a long time there can be crazy hard!

 

[Spiderman]

I wouldn't go that far Not all that solemn - and spending a long time there can be crazy hard!

Anyhow, I love stuff like that. I lived at three monasteries and used to volunteer at a convent in the summer time.

Sadly, that is where my mind became filled with this belief that people are going to a place of eternal torment forever and ever and ever, and it just drove me insane! Religion can destroy a person!

 

[Kirran]

Anyhow, I love stuff like that. I lived at three monasteries and used to volunteer at a convent in the summer time.

Sadly, that is where my mind became filled with this belief that people are going to a place of eternal torment forever and ever and ever, and it just drove me insane! Religion can destroy a person!

Wrong monasteries mate! But hey, you learnt what you needed from them, now you're learning what you need from your changed situation. You are in an intense place within yourself, and that's very cleansing.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

Shame you live in one of those foreign countries, I'd invite you to Skanda Vale...

Ooh, I'd love to visit their Maha Shakti temple. Jai Kali!

 

[Kirran]

Ooh, I'd love to visit their Maha Shakti temple. Jai Kali!

If, through a strange course of events, you're in the area!

 

[metis]

If God made us, and if God made us well knowing what we would become, then why would God have eternal damnation for those which He created?

 

[Spiderman]

If God made us, and if God made us well knowing what we would become, then why would God have eternal damnation for those which He created?

I know, it doesn't make sense. I just need to make the decision now that everything I was taught about it is false. Need to make the decision that God isn't irrational and firmly believe it.