Glaurung
Denizen of Niflheim
Not exactly.Nearly all Muslims, and most Christians believe in a god that eternally tortures anyone who does not follow their faith. This means that the majority of people in the world will spend an eternity being tortured in a conscious state, according to these religions. So, according to these religions, the majority of my family and friends would end up being tortured in hell forever by a being that you claim to love and worship.
Catechism of the Catholic Church said:"Outside the Church there is no salvation"
846 How are we to understand this affirmation, often repeated by the Church Fathers?335 Re-formulated positively, it means that all salvation comes from Christ the Head through the Church which is his Body:
Basing itself on Scripture and Tradition, the Council teaches that the Church, a pilgrim now on earth, is necessary for salvation: the one Christ is the mediator and the way of salvation; he is present to us in his body which is the Church. He himself explicitly asserted the necessity of faith and Baptism, and thereby affirmed at the same time the necessity of the Church which men enter through Baptism as through a door. Hence they could not be saved who, knowing that the Catholic Church was founded as necessary by God through Christ, would refuse either to enter it or to remain in it.336
847 This affirmation is not aimed at those who, through no fault of their own, do not know Christ and his Church:
Those who, through no fault of their own, do not know the Gospel of Christ or his Church, but who nevertheless seek God with a sincere heart, and, moved by grace, try in their actions to do his will as they know it through the dictates of their conscience - those too may achieve eternal salvation.337
848 "Although in ways known to himself God can lead those who, through no fault of their own, are ignorant of the Gospel, to that faith without which it is impossible to please him, the Church still has the obligation and also the sacred right to evangelize all men."338
http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P29.HTM
For one I am grateful for my existence which I recognize as being utterly dependent upon God. Further I recognize that as almighty creator, God has the right to demand the obedience and worship due to him from his creatures. Justice demands the rights of all beings to be honoured. God too, has rights. Principally the right to have his godhead recognized by all. It follows then that far from being deranged, God acts well within his rights to punish those who deny him of what he is entitled to. God would be unjust to himself to not do so.Hubert Farnsworth said:How could you possibly worship and claim to love a god that would do this? This "god" that you worship sounds like an inherently evil and deranged psychopath.
Put into the perspective of eternity, God demands very little from us. For an eternity of endless and unsurpassable happiness; one human lifetime (if that) of faith and obedience.
This is nothing but your own projection. I don't see it like you do. You can dismiss it as cowardice, but I can dismiss your views as the same. An attempt to rationalize one's willful rejection of God and the moral reality thereof. I don't say this to be accusatory, merely to show that such a game can be played both ways.Clearly, the only reason a Christian or Muslim believing in hell would forsake all of their unbelieving loved ones and "worship" such a monster would be out of pure cowardice. You fear going to hell more than you care about your unbelieving loved ones, so you turn your back on your unbelieving loved ones to follow the cosmic Hitler
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