God Told Me To Do It

"Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your Deity made you in his own image, I reply that he must have been very ugly." -Victor Hugo

I've been emailing one of my Christunfrends on the subject of hell. Hell is the dark underbelly of orthodox Christian belief. Christians are, with some notable exceptions, a nice bunch. Remember the natives of the planet Krikkit? In Life, the Universe and Everything they believe in "peace, justice, morality, culture, sport, family life, and the obliteration of all other life forms." As I've said before, evangelicals are sometimes a bit like that. Only instead of the obliteration of all other life forms, we have the eternal conscious torment of non-believers in Hell (annihilationism being viewed as suspiciously liberal by people like Reform).

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