What's worse: Heaven or Hell?

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  1. Rand86

    Rand86 likes to butt heads

    ^ How about "The Divine Comedy?" :p
     
  2. Knight_Errant

    Knight_Errant Banned Banned

    Dammit, this is not a Terry Pratchett novel. Hell either exists or, more likely, it doesn't.
     
  3. Rand86

    Rand86 likes to butt heads

    You're no fun. :(
     
  4. Knight_Errant

    Knight_Errant Banned Banned

    *muses* funnily enough a belief in hell isn't confined to christianity. Almost everybody seems to have a hell, even if their religion didn't see fit to provide them with a heaven.
     
  5. Rand86

    Rand86 likes to butt heads

    A belief in Hell predates Christianity by quite a while in fact. Most people seem to have had a very clear idea in whose company they want to spend their eternity.
     
  6. Mangosteen

    Mangosteen Hold strong not

    Hell in some religions is being re-birthed as a slug.

    but yeah theirs always a consequence to bad life choices in religion.
     
  7. Rand86

    Rand86 likes to butt heads

    If memory serves, in some religions involving reincarnation the absolute rock-bottom was being reincarnated as, well, a rock.

    This meant that you were well and proper screwed, without any chance of fixing the mess you've made in your past life.

    Took some serious work to get to that level though.
     
  8. Kwajman

    Kwajman Penguin in paradise....


    Or having to live in New York City or Jersey....
     
  9. aikiwolfie

    aikiwolfie ... Supporter

    Everything pre-dates Christianity. Which begs the question why do Christian's think their input is so important? Seriously there is absolutely nothing unique or innovative about Christianity. At no point has it ever offered anything new to the world.
     
  10. Devil Hanzo

    Devil Hanzo Doesn't tap to heel-hooks

    Religion is just like Santa Claus when you're a child.

    You don't know whether he's real or not, but you're made to feel bad if you don't believe in him so you do. He's used as a form of control for parents to force their children into behaving for fear of getting coal (like the fires of Hell ooooo) in their stocking. If they behave according to the rules as outlined by their parents, they're rewarded with gifts. Oh, and you NEVER see him or have any proof of his existence outside of word-of-mouth, but you're expected to "just believe he exists".

    Just the same, when you realize there is no Santa, you can finally relax.
     
  11. Rand86

    Rand86 likes to butt heads

    The all-too-common human ailment known as egocentrism?

    You can probably say the same about anything after the Epic of Gilgamesh.

    At any rate, "new" and "valuable" aren't exactly synonyms. Though I don't particularly feel like arguing for the value of Christianity right now; I'm invoking "the eye of the beholder" clause, i. e. don't like it then best of luck to you.
     
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  12. Rand86

    Rand86 likes to butt heads

    To that I tell thee:

     
  13. Blade96

    Blade96 shotokan karateka

    and people who abuse cats will come back as mice in their next life.
     
  14. Kid Moe

    Kid Moe Peace that don't belong

    As Mark Twain said:

    “I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places” :D
     
  15. Rand86

    Rand86 likes to butt heads

    I'm even more screwed then. :(
     
  16. aikiwolfie

    aikiwolfie ... Supporter

    Scientists bread mice who were fearless of cats. The cats strangely lost their nerve.
     
  17. Mangosteen

    Mangosteen Hold strong not

    I'd be afraid of a "Scientists bread mice" too.
    an evil mix of genius plus carbohydrate plus cuteness.

    evil...
     
  18. Rand86

    Rand86 likes to butt heads

    Sounds like a hell of a sandwich. :p
     
  19. aikiwolfie

    aikiwolfie ... Supporter

    :evil: nom nom nom :evil:
     
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