I mean technically, if you really read about hell in the bible, it’s only the only place god is not. I mean it’s described as an awful lake of fire and so on, but that’s just because the people who were reading it needed to hear that the people persecuting them were going to get theirs.
But yeah, what you said is what most people believe, I just think it’s funny that the word for Hell when Jesus talks about it is actually Gahanna which is the place outside Jerusalem where they burned all their refuse.
Yeah, there’s actually a lot about the faith that is purely metaphysical, but had to be described as something that people who lack abstract thinking could understand. Which is where we got the Lake of Fire from. Remember Dante’s Inferno is a novel, it was written by an edge Lord, it is not official church doctrine even if pop culture movies about hell will draw on it for inspiration.
Essentially: “If you’re a trash person, you’ll be thrown out and burned on the trash heap. But if you love me, that proves you’re not a trash person and it’s the only way to prove that.”
Revives anyway coz it’s too boring to stay dead
Jesus: “I made this checklist of what we call ‘sins’, and you seem to be violating a lot of them!”
Human: “your checklist sucks.”
Jesus: “well that’s fine, that’s fine… you can keep on violating them and I’ll forgive you as long as you swear that I am the best. Then I’m going to need you to give me 10% of your income, as a gift… and I also want you to tell everybody else about this sweet deal I’ve made with you.”
Human: “fuck off you crazy wannabe gangster.”
“dies”
Remember back when atheism was just about not believing in god?
Yeah, it’s hard to take rationalism seriously when it seems to be preached by those who worship at the altar of Sam Harris. When that’s not how being rational works, that’s literally dogma.
It is a strange irony that a creature such as man can take the concept of not having a religion, and somehow warp it into being very much resembling a religion.
I suppose this is why in Psychology they say, man is a religious animal.
I remember when this community was created. I was one of the fist to post here and suggest that it try and stray away from the angsty “Reddit atheism” rhetoric.
I knew that was an impossible thing to suggest.
I’m not trying to elbow drop you but it truly was an impossible thing to suggest.
I am now 49, and when I was 24 I decided to join an atheist club. It was my desire to be around like-minded people and make friends.
I quickly realized the only thing we had in common was atheism. And I was saturated with irony, being among people who felt compelled to continually talk about how they don’t believe in something.
It seems it’s hard for humans to discuss anything without making it a piece of their identity… Which is really unhealthy when discussion is not varied.
Seriously, every transgirl who’s been around long enough has a horror story about why they don’t go to their local support group anymore. Except for me, I have closer to three.
Its funny because memes like this actually kind of require you to believe in God to make sense. Jesus was either made up or some crazy person. He didn’t die for our sins so I don’t think it makes sense to be pissed off at him or a god that doesn’t exist. These whole line of reasoning assumes a believe in god and Jesus and its a super weird fit for an athiest perspective.