The brand of theology I grew up in was pretty brutal. Why did God make hell, and people who were gonna go to hell? We believed in predestination, so He *knew* he was making ppl who He was actively sending to hell. Why?
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also ok before yall shit on Calvinism, it *is* brutal but also the strength is it resolves a lot of philosophical confusions present in other denominations. Other Christian beliefs sacrifice consistency/logic for more 'goodness'; Calvinists are the autists
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For a bit more Calvinism I forgot to explain: yes, you and every human born is inherently sinful and deserving of hell from the moment of conception. You personally did nothing to warrant it, it's just a deep, intractable part of your nature.
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Yes, this means that babies go to hell, in the same way adults do. This is a facet of covenant theology, which views human/God interactions as bound by covenants; basically programming in conditions into the 'way things work', which are modifiable
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It was ours, too — except my family was happy to put it that explicitly and even more so, offering detailed descriptions of those brutal eternal punishments and reveling at the thought…and making it seem sinful if you *weren’t* celebrating them. Incredibly warping to a person.
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When I was growing up I admired your family. I know how warping my cultural version was, and to take more glee in the brutality aspect *has* to be tied to even more intense psychological self denial.
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