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submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

People who believe in Hell try to absolve their construct of God from that monstrosity by talking as if he had nothing to do with it. They talk as if the existence of such a “place” were somehow beyond his ability to control. “God doesn’t send people to Hell,” they assure themselves, “people choose to go there; they send themselves.” Uh huh. I have two main responses to that. The first is to point out that their desire to absolve God from this atrocity doesn’t come from the Bible, in case they thought it did. The second thing has to do with the impossibility of that task.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

My favorite way people try to do it is to insist that hell isn't infinite. "It's not an eternity of torture, it's just 5,000,000 years of it."

Or better yet, "It's not constant torture. You get breaks!"

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

How is it that humans are capable of recognizing that any amount of torture is immoral, but the alleged Source of all morality isn't?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

They say you get breaks? I’ve never heard that one lol

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I forget which apologist argues that one, but they usually couple it with the "people choose to go there/stay there" argument.

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