Originally posted by sonhouse
So you think 3 miles of water won't kill all the land animals? Just which ones in your fantasy world do you desperately wish survives? Elephants? Would they just float? Does your delusion know no bounds?
So you figure your so-called Lord was waging WAR on those humans and oh well, touch shyte, all those BILLIONS of animals died.
So you figure 'the end ...[text shortened]... it get pissed at a bunch of humans and the ones that pay are ALL the land animals? Get real.
I also think the reaction of theists who believe in this concept of hell is just plain weird.
I mean, if I knew for a fact that someone around me was going to be tortured, even for a day, and I could do something about it, I wouldn't be able to rest until I had done that.
I couldn't sit around, for example, playing online chess.
Yet some theists who say they believe in this are happy to sit around, play a game of chess, exchange pleasantries etc with people who do not share their faith despite believing that many of the people they are talking to face an eternity of torment.
However, the reaction of these theists to this concept of hell is a mixture of:
1 A kind of 'shrugs shoulders', 'stuff like that happens' indifference.
2 It's your fault, you were warned.
3 Gloating. 'You gonna get what's coming to you.'
Put this in the human context and imagine the reaction:
1 Yeah, your son was tortured and I knew it was going to happen but I had a pressing clan game to finish. What are you gonna do?
2 Actually, the person who tortured your son made it very clear to him in advance that if he rang his doorbell once more and ran away he would do this. So nothing more to be said, I think you'll agree.
3 And what's more I think the little so and so deserved it. Hallelujah!
My own view is that, despite their protestations (because they feel they can't say otherwise) most actually do not believe in this type of hell at all.