Why the Jesus H Christ do I have to wait until the second coming? It's winter, I'd like to burn now if you don't mind.
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Omnipotent_N_Omnipresent — 9 years ago(December 29, 2016 07:06 AM)
Why the Jesus H Christ do I have to wait until the second coming? It's winter, I'd like to burn now if you don't mind.
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washclothrepairman — 9 years ago(December 29, 2016 04:29 PM)
And yet, somehow, evil people who are believers get a pass, while nonbelievers with morals don't.
Funny how that works.
It's almost as if ignorant desert savages just made this sh!t up as they went along as a means to control people and justify their own barbarism.
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Asteri-Atypical — 9 years ago(December 29, 2016 04:35 PM)
And yet, somehow, evil people who are believers get a pass, while nonbelievers with morals don't.
Funny how that works.
Yep. In fact it's amazing that BELIEF is the prime criterion by which one is "saved." Seems the lack of belief in something for which there is no evidence which made no personal appearance to the people being thus judged, is a fairly twisted reason to condemn a soul to eternal torment.
Sounds much more likely it's humans telling other people "you must believe - OR ELSE!" as opposed to the supernatural being setting up that ultimate criterion.
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PoisonedDragon — 9 years ago(December 29, 2016 04:39 PM)
Sounds like you lick your chops at the prospect.
Heaven cannot be properly enjoyed, unless the saints can behold the sufferings of the damned.
This was longstanding Christian tradition, exemplified in the writings of various divines of Christianity. Here's Thomas Aquinas's take on the subject:
Now everything is known the more for being compared with its contrary, because when contraries are placed beside one another they become more conspicuous. Wherefore in order that the happiness of the saints may be more delightful to them and that they may render more copious thanks to God for it, they are allowed to see perfectly the sufferings of the damned.
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