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Originally Posted by Chippingaway
Why do bad things happen to good people and bad people flourish?
These thoughts are trite only because we become bored with them but they also are foundational to the ideas of heaven and hell....that sense of ultimate justice winning out and 2+2 will always be 4. The ultimate being will see to it, and if we follow the prescribed rules which result in living a good life we will be the winners eventualy, rewarded for our troubles.
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Because life is unfair, we invent life after death to square it all up? I don't think so, and it is as repulsive a notion as anything I've heard. Just another promise that can't be verified. I would have expected much better of a deity.
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But, there are fine points put to the rules and the fine points can win hell. Relating to what EH posted....a good christian can live a good life, but if there are slight differences varying from one's own traditional way, that person is seen as a canidiate for hell, and he also sees us as one.
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What about non-Christians? There are a few, you know. They go by names like atheist, Buddhist, Jews, Muslim, Jain, Hindu and many more. Yet the Christian religion says all of them are going to hell for not believing the Christian religion -- EVEN IF THEY NEVER, EVER HEARD IT!
How's that for justice from a loving god? It is without a doubt the most outrageously cruel garbage in all of man's many religious notions.
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By the way, not to pick on just the christians, there is also a Buddhist hell, and a Hindu hell, tho one is not sentenced there by a big boss weighing one's pluses and debits on a scale.
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That's a poor reason to accept hell. There are many things that lots of people accept as true which I do not.