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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Burning in hell forever. If God actually burns us alive in hell forever wouldn’t that make him the worst serial killer of them all. It’s disgusting how much evil that would take.

Whenever I hear about someone being killed my first thought is I hope they didn’t suffer. But if hell is real then it’s designed for us to suffer in the worst possible way forever.[/quote]

Also there's the question of why you would want to be in heaven forever if someone you loved dearly did not make it with you but was sent to hell or limbo.[/quote]
When you go to heaven, you are not the same "you". Your relationships with other people aren't the same.   That's what I was told.

I have also recently learned that "hell" is not some burning firey pit, but a place that has the absence of the presence of God, like Limbo in Dante's Inferno.[/quote]

NP here. Sure -- my understanding is that the idea is that heaven is a place where you're closest to God (and therefore happiest), while hell is a place that is furthest from God.

I guess my question, overall, is why some Christians tie themselves into logical knots trying to explain the obvious contradictions in the logic of their religion. Ex: Why would a forgiving, omnipotent God create anything but a peaceful, happy world? Why would such a God allow children to die?

If the answer to those questions--as it often seems to be--is that God works in mysterious ways and we shouldn't question it, that doesn't seem particularly satisfying to many people (hence the decline in adherence to Christianity in much of the world).

Of course, no religion is perfect, but there are traditions--like Buddhism and Hinduism, which granted many scholars don't consider "religions," per se, but more like life philosophies--that don't require so many instances of blind faith. They do involve belief in reincarnation, but other than that, there's not much that isn't supposed to be directly experienced by followers of Buddhism or Hinduism. There's no priest class that is supposedly inherently "better" than anyone else. There's even much less gender inequality--women can be Buddhist monks (they're called nuns) for example. The whole thing is about internal introspection and connection with something greater than the material world, with all its shortcomings.

This is a long way of saying: if you're struggling so much with these questions, why not look into something different? [/quote]

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