God's Chamber of Horrors

aka, "Hell".

Recently I was treated to the ever-so-common, practically-inevitable-when-dealing-with-Christians, threat of "hell". Sometimes the threat is thinly-veiled; other times, it's more blatant. Sadly, this was a case of the latter.

Christian acquaintance(female), said....

"Just deeply concerned for your soul, my understanding is that hell is not a nice place, my heart would break for you if you ended up there [...]. I will continue to pray and love you."

Let's see, where to begin...

Okay, firstly, if you feel that I don't deserve to go to "Hell", then why-the-f' do you implicitly support such a place by loving and worshiping the very being who could do away with it if he wanted to, but doesn't? Well?

If, on the other hand, you feel that I DO deserve to be tormented 24/7 for all of eternity, then what's the problem? I'm getting precisely what I deserve, right? That's good ol' "justice", bible-style, isn't it? Please, any Christian, be the first to put it into terms that make sense.

Secondly, if "sin must be punished!" as the fundamentalists will insist, then fine, punish the one or two people who committed the one-time "offense" of eating the piece of forbidden flippin' fruit. Don't blame people who weren't there and had no part of that decision. I mean, isn't that the whole point of "free will"?..i.e..for each person to choose for themselves? Yes, I believe so. Yet, mysteriously, Adam & Eve chose "evil" on our behalf, and for some strange reason, believers buy this, hook, line, and sinker.

Thirdly, what in tarnation is a "soul", and if it's something non-physical - IOW, something beyond the scope of sensory perception - then feel free to explain how you punish torture such a (non)-thing. 'Listening.


And finally, what does "God" hope to accomplish after the fact? IOW, assuming that some people will wake up in "Hell"....so-the-hell-what??? What does it actually prove or accomplish? If it's all true, it still remains something that cannot be proven until after the fact(after death). In which case, it seems to me that this is merely God's way of saying, "See?....told ya!.....neener, neener!". You know, that "playground" mentality we all remember from elementary school.

*Note, just like there is no literal "Heaven", there is no literal "Hell". Again, I have merely discussed this topic under the pretense that "Hell" exists, in an attempt to show the absurdity of the notion.