-Removed-This. What you said here.
I quite enjoy chats about issues pertaining to morality, the effects of beliefs on society, the nature of faith, subjectivity versus objectivity, the human spirit and human nature and the human condition, personhood, the meaning of life etc. etc.
But IF... "torture in burning flames for eternity" [as brand spanking new Christian Philokalia put it a couple of years ago] as a form of divine wrath and revenge ...WERE REAL...
...I wouldn't waste a moment in this cranny. I'd be working flat out for some church or NGO trying to reach as many people as humanly possible.
If I DIDN'T do that, you'd be forgiven 100% for deducing that I did NOT really actually sincerely believe in "torture in burning flames for eternity" AT ALL, and that I was just pretending to, and posing, and/or simply trying to manipulate feeble-minded people for egotistical reasons.
-Removed-I'm trying my best to assist in understanding, which would potentionally relieve unecessary suffering and bring happier, more peaceful lives ( of Christians)
As far as general advice on Christianity I see the idea of only one Christ ( rather than the potential for more Christs ) as the most distorting understanding for Christians.
After all "Christ" was not his last name.
And he did say things like "are we not all gods", implying that all humans can attain Christ-consciousness , that he was not the only one
@karoly-aczel saidNone of the peddlers of "eternal torment" think, for one moment, that "eternal torment" is going to happen to them. This makes it really easy to say that they believe it's true.
I'm trying my best to assist in understanding, which would potentionally relieve unecessary suffering and bring happier, more peaceful lives ( of Christians)
@karoly-aczel saidWhat was it originally? Something like Saxe-Coburg-und-Gotha?
After all "Christ" was not his last name.
