Q2: I've looked through your entire site and I have not found the
word HELL once! Why don't you talk about hell and the devil?
I do not believe that hell was created by God. There is simply
no need for an eternal hell. Think about
it. Eternal damnation means you aren't coming back to learn from
your mistakes: no second chance. So why bother keeping all the
furnaces going?! It just doesn't make good business sense,
and I'm pretty sure a perfect Manager would downsize that operation
pretty quickly. Is it for eternal punishment? Seriously?
That's really cruel. Many humans could never stoop
that low, so how could a highly evolved being? Or could it
really all be simply to scare the
beegeezus out of us so we will all act properly?! If so, why
build it, why not just plant some rumors?
"Boy are you gonna get it when we get home" is one of the
least effective child behavior modification technique I have ever
seen.
When this line works as intended, the child basically lives in fear
for the rest of the trip.
When the punishment is finally delivered, what child remembers
the initial reason for the punishment? It is simply way
too late, children rarely
learn from this, and it only serves to cultivate fear and teach
children to be cruel to those they love - yup, you are being cruel
to those you love.
Likewise, hell is a pretty ridiculous behavior modification
motivator too. "Boy are you gonna get it, yup,
just wait until you die!"
I can't believe that a perfect God would rely on
such a worthless mechanism to encourage us to fly straight.
But with total free will there is no reason why we can't build it
ourselves. Much more likely is that we create hell
right here on earth.
And if hell is a human creation, the appropriate action
is to simply ignore it, or refuse to acknowledge its power.
