When I got a speeding ticket doing 85 in a 55, did I do that to myself
or was I framed?
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Did that yourself. But the punishment for that is life in prison in solitary confinement. Did you "choose" that? Isn't that just a little excessive by today's moral standards?
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Again, we're talking about superstitious barbaric men that had no idea how the world really worked, so of course their hell would be as horrible as they could think up. Human life didn't mean a lot to them, and to just threaten someone with death didn't have a lot of "bang for the buck" so to speak. But tell them they won't actually die, but spend eternity burning, and you had their attention.
We've been over this a hundred times but it is what it is-amazing that anyone could call a god loving and kind, but still say that he'd send people that didn't believe in him to a hell.