This is exactly what I believed, though I don't think I was ever so heartless as to desire it for someone.
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Replying to @moolecular @RichardDawkins
Depends on which group you are indoctrinated into. My parents are evangelicals. This type of hate was normal when I was growing up

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Replying to @ElleWest26 @RichardDawkins
I was evangelical Christian too, but I was never taught by my parents to desire the fate for anybody or to gloat about it. I did think it was the way that it was though. And that atheists chose their own fate so that it was fine to use them as an example.
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Replying to @moolecular @RichardDawkins
I was taught to pray that other people meet that fate but my parents believe in “talking in voices” (not sure how to translate), faith healing, that women should serve men & wear dresses & nonsense mostly espoused by televangelists & a small group of far out evangelicals
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Replying to @ElleWest26 @RichardDawkins
"Speaking in tongues" I suspect. You were taught to pray for people who had "chosen" not to believe to go to Hell?
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Replying to @moolecular @RichardDawkins
In prayer sessions we prayed that people be punished or be “taken” to hell for “leading the flock of jesus astray” if I remember correctly. The idea was that these “bad people” were corrupting innocents so we had to pray that they be punished or “struck down” by god. That counts?
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Yeah, If I imagine the propositions are really true, that heaven and hell exist and my loved ones really will go to hell and suffer excruciatingly for *eternity* if they don't behave the right way, I'd have a ton of hatred for anyone who tries to lead them toward that.
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If heaven and hell were real and eternal, mortal life on this planet would be incredibly inconsequential in the big picture of our moral decisions. We'd be completely right to weigh it as such and only care about the afterlife. That's why these beliefs are so harmful imo.
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Precisely. To understand other people's motivations, you have to come at them from the assumption that their beliefs are true. This makes it clear why it is so hard for afterlife believers to leave other people alone.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @Intrinsic29 and
I couldn't leave people alone when I believed hell was real. Nothing was more important than saving people from it. Imagine you see a blind person about to walk off a cliff but they don't believe the cliff is there? Wouldn't you rugby tackle them in the end?
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Imagine they were leading blind people off cliffs? Wouldn't you lock them up for the safety of others? It's why we must tackle the beliefs themselves and not just hope that people can be persuaded to keep them to themselves although many do.
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