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[–] [email protected] 35 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Lets say for a second that that was true.

I'd rather spend eternity in hellfire than spend eternity with that kind of God.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Not sure if you’re at all familiar with the Abrahamic god, Yehweh/Jehova/Allah, or if you’ve read the Bible, but that heaven isn’t so great, either. It’s all worship and singing praises for eternity. Ew.

Those bronze-age myth-writers sure had a lot of imagination when it came to devising eternal torments, but when it came to describing their idea of eternal bliss, they really dropped the ball. 

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I prefer Greek bronze-age myth writers for tales of the afterlife. "You can harvest THREE TIMES A YEAR, the weather is always pleasant, and best of all, the gods stay away! What a perfect life!"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

yeah, the Underworld seemed like a fascinating place to adventure through, too.

ya know, a good place to get away from the wife. with just your buddies. together. for 20 years… ;P

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It’s all worship and singing praises for eternity. Ew.

I'm 100% convinced Satan is actually super chill and "hell" is really the place you want to go for a good time, the Bible also only has the perspective of God is good, Satan Bad. Where's Satan's perspective?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

From a fundamentalist standpoint, the vast majority of scientists who ever lived will be going to hell because they don't believe. With an endless supply of heat to provide energy, you better believe they already installed air conditioning.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Bit where would they put the heat that they pulled out of the now cooled room? If it's hotter on the 'outside' of the AC than the coils of the condenser then it has no way to shed that energy...

I think we need a hell's energy adjustment taskforce (HEAT) to address this issue. Perhaps offering free heat pumps to the surface dwellers would be a start and make for a good PR move.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

In buildings. Heat pumps are amazingly efficient, and pumping hot air from inside to outside (or the other way around) is something we've been doing for generations.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

It’s really hard, tbf. Perfection is impossible.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago

Tax churches then, since god can't keep his mouth shut

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Put not your trust in princes or sons of men, in whom there is no salvation. His breath departs, he returns to the earth. On that very day his plans perish.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Can we have a rush order on that breath departing thing?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

These aren't his plans. These are the plans of smarter, more capable men. Organizations like the Heritage Foundation don't go away easily.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

It’s like something from a b or z movie

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

More media fear-mongering that makes you piss your pants? You shouldn't have.

No, I mean it. You really, REALLY shouldn't have. I'm running out of underpants.