If I may be permitted one more musing on the general topic of The #1 Reason for Atheism is Religion, under the sub-topic God Will Burn You Alive Forever, I will offer it here.
First, I’d like to direct you to the previous two sermonettes on this subject.You may simply click below where you find Categories: Church of the Infinite Chasm. Click there (Hey, it’s a red-letter edition!) for all previous Church Chat posts and you’ll see the previous two awaiting your click at the top of the list. Go ahead and do that now. I’ll wait. Promise I will.
Cue the crickets…
Ok, I hope that was enlightening and thought-provoking. There is just a point or two I’d like to add. And I hope you’ll appreciate that so far I have not resorted to quoting chapter and verse. That can be kind of annoying. But after all, I’m not aiming this primarily at so-called Christians. I’m asking so-called atheists to reason on things. There are plenty of them who are not exactly drawn to a God who allegedly says, “I am so bursting with love that if you don’t agree with me I will fry your ass in boiling oil for a zillion centuries.” That’s certainly understandable. And as you know from reading the previous posts, the Church of the Infinite Chasm says that is not a Bible teaching. And if it was, who could get warm and fuzzy feelings for a god like that?
Today, I don’t intend to start quoting chapter and verse, but I would like to ask anyone who reads this – so-called atheist or so-called Christian – to meditate on a couple of Bible teachings that virtually everyone has heard of. Both of these points were made by Jesus, said to be the perfect ambassador and flawless representative of his father. On one occasion he told his followers to love your enemies and pray for them. “If your enemy is thirsty, give him something to drink,” he said. On another occasion he gave the famous parable of the Good Samaritan who helped a Jewish man who had been mugged along a desolate stretch of road. Significantly, Jew and Samaritans were not on friendly terms. His parable in modern terms might have been, “A black man was robbed along the roadway, and someone from the NAACP walked past without helping him, and so did someone from the Rainbow Coalition. But a Ku Klux Klansman saw the man and bandaged him up and took him to the nearest hospital and paid his bill.”
I have to ask you, do those sound like the kind of principles that would be espoused by someone who would torture people forever? Does someone who says the #1 law is love God, and then gives the next highest principle as “love thy neighbor” (even if he is your enemy) seem like the kind of person who would torture his opponents?
Of course not. And yet that is exactly what most churches teach. No wonder so many millions have turned away from religion and instead to science. But the truth is, hellfire and eternal torment are not Bible teachings.
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