1/6 is the perfect encapsulation of everything that happens in American politics:
- Conservatives bumble around cluelessly, accomplishing nothing.
- Progressives obsess over something being way more dangerous and threatening than it actually is.
@DelusionPosting People hate this take but we really do need to do something about people that don't want to hurt children, but find themselves attracted to children. Keep them away from kids, but don't isolate them from good society.
Just for the record. If you're going to have a mental breakdown, I'd rather you jump naked into a Bass Pro Shop aquarium than shoot up innocent people..
@ParanormalTrev @ancient_elf@KeaTiki@AtheistPhoenix I've stated my position many times in many ways so I'll just point out that this thread went from "God is evil because sometimes bad people can go to Heaven" to "God is evil because bad people can go to Hell".
@ancient_elf @ParanormalTrev @KeaTiki@AtheistPhoenix A better metaphor would be letting your child run in to the basement to starve if they refused to be around you.
God could have forced us to love him, or he could have created no anguish from not receiving his love. He didn't.
Does that make him evil? I don't think so.
@ParanormalTrev @AtheistPhoenix 1) You are hungry
2) You are put in a room with food
3) You can't eat because you sewed your own mouth shut
1) Your soul wants Love
2) You encounter the embodiment of Love after death
3) You can't accept this Love because you severed your soul from God
We call this Hell.
@ancient_elf @ParanormalTrev @KeaTiki@AtheistPhoenix Let's find common ground for now. I'll admit that my beliefs about salvation depend on God being real. Can you admit that there is no logical contradiction between an all powerful, loving God, and damnation (Even if you reject belief in both)
@AtheistPhoenix Yes, if you had said that "Hell is not real" this would be a silly reply from me. But you said that God is not worthy of worship because he created Hell. Can you at least admit that, if accepting my premises, a hypothetical creator of Hell is not necessarily evil?
@KeaTiki @ParanormalTrev @AtheistPhoenix "Narcicism" is a negative character trait in humans because it is putting our own value above the value of others. God, being the Highest Good, should place highest value in Himself.
Hell is when we don't love God. He does not force us to love him. Why not? We don't know.
@ancient_elf @ParanormalTrev @KeaTiki@AtheistPhoenix Yes, God will forgive! We just need to accept God's love again through repentance. God cannot make us accept his love. Hell is when our soul is in a state of opposition towards God, it is not a literal place. The bible is full of metaphors, don't take them too literally.