“Hell” is a barbaric mythical concept that has traumatized children for millennia at the behest of a Church whose culpability in spreading untold misery will never be absolved by the superficial reformative gestures of this wildly overrated pontiff
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I think of the concepts as devices used to incentivize certain behaviors. There are carrots and there are sticks. I've always wondered why one needs both; i.e., why a sufficiently high reward (heaven) isn't enough.
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The fact that the concepts are often thought of in terms of “carrots and sticks” rather than truth or falsity says a lot about the utility of the belief system as a mechanism for social control
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Tell that to the children of Gaza. I can't imagine anything more suffocating or nightmarish than the contemplation that there is nothing beyond this cruel world. No hope for seeing our loved ones again; no Divine justice for the victims of drone attacks, war, abuse, torture.
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