How to deal with "hell is a choice" rhetoric?
How do you deal with apologists and others who basically say "going to hell is your fault because you choose it, (so that makes it ok?)"
It reminds me of a little kid who grabs your arm and hits you with it, shouting "stop hitting yourself!" lol
Similarly, the "hell is just the absence of God, so the absence of anything good" line.
I feel like the Catholic Church used to teach that hell was absolutely endless physical and spiritual torture and punishment. I think they low-key still DO teach this, but internet Catholics pretend that they don't. They act like "hell" is just a choice and not really God's responsibility or fault or doing, like it's just this place that people who don't obey and believe sufficiently end up, but like God doesn't actually SEND them there so he isn't the bad guy here. Anyone else run into this? What are your most effective rejoinders?