It can be frightening to think abt how many people subscribe to a belief system which includes the eternal torture of ppl with diff beliefs.
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We see this every time a Christian tries to claim Hitler was an atheist or asks how an 'atheist morality' can say he was wrong.
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The sheer number of times Christians use Hitler as the epitome of evil shows they cannot be morally committed to the Hell idea.
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Some apologists will make arguments about it being humans who send themselves there by not believing the right things.
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Others will say the difference is that Hitler was a human & God is God - the most morally relativist argument I've ever heard.
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But mostly, when Christians think of God, they think goodness & love, rather than eternally torturing ppl who disagree with you.
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This doesn't mean we shouldn't point out that this horrible idea exists & is horrible & that others fully believe in it & justify it.
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Or that fear of Hell & the hatred of people believed to be drawing ppl into it isn't responsible for the murder of apostates & blasphemers
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Or a general distrust of & discrimination against people with different religions or no religion.
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But arguments that religious ppl (I'm talking mostly abt Christians) support the idea or torture for wrongthink,don't really work.
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as long as you don't live in Pakistan that is.
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I don't. I realise beliefs in death for apostasy are horrifically high among Muslims in some places.
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I mean it's state sponsored in some cases with laws that define apostates and atheists as terrorists (Eg. Saudi Arabia)
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I mean cool they had a comic con but they still publicly torture/execute people who dare question the national religion.
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Yes. I talk about this a lot.
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