u/The_Squirrel_Wizard

https://deconstructedpastor.substack.com/p/a-brief-history-of-hell

I'm agnostic these days so I'm not afraid of it. Pretty sure at this stage of my life that anyone who talks about the afterlife with certainty is selling something.

Much like the person in the article above the idea of hell that I was introduced to was "God loves you but if you lie about eating that cookie and die before you repent god is gonna make a demon shove a red hot poker into your guts, twist it till your intestines and skin rip off and are twisted around it like spaghetti. Only for your skin to regrow so it can happen again forever"

Morally speaking there is no way in which suffering improves the world other than teaching us lessons. And eternal suffering cannot grant that benefit as there is no escape to learn from it. Nothing that could possibly be gained from it

Of course later on I learn the original Bible only talked about it vaguely. Old testament not having hell at all. Jesus saying Gehenna as burning trash pile. Revelations does have a lake of fire but that actually proceeds the idea that the souls of non-believers are immortal so probably just meant they would be destroyed.

So where does the notion of eternal torment come from. Very clearly the human mind. And that is just so sad. I understand hating some figures so much you want them to suffer eternally like Genghis Khan or Hitler. But most people would never do anything that comes anywhere near deserving eternal torment

As a famous quote said " in

lower pomerania is the diamond mountain, which is two miles

high, two miles wide, and two miles deep. Every hundred

years a little bird comes and sharpens its beak on it, and

when the whole mountain is worn away by this, then the first

second of eternity will be over."

What crime could possibly deserve such vast suffering

In that Charlie's inferno song they say hell is full of

"Fatsos squealing, shackled with some apples in their mouths

Attention whores in padded bras hanging from extension cords

Tortured with the products from their favorite catalogs"

So people are just out here seeing a "fatso" walk by and wishing eternal damnation on them.

Such reckless hate makes me weep for humanity

I had an earlier post on this but as one commenter pointed out leaving the title in is free advertising

Reddit almost certainly put this ad on my feed cause I commented that my wife likes vampire/werewolf novels.

That doesn't mean I want to be bombarded with bestiality body horror AI slop on my page

And fuck all those AI generated "you can do anything in this world" ads while we are at it