Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?
>threatening people into following your arbitrary conception of 'good' or else they will suffer a horrible deathWhy are christians like this?
>>24959542Plenty, Jacob Marley found a private prison/workhouse within himself both in life and in death.>>24959572Lead us towards a conception which is rightfully deemed not arbitrary and I will commend you.
>>24959572>implying they don't deserve to suffer a horrible death
>>24959572He wasn't promised a horrible death, he was promised that nobody would mourn him or remember him fondly. Do people not remember you fondly or unfondly based on your actions?
>>24961268He was promised to exist in a private hell in death on account of living in a private hell in life, by his own choosing. He had to live in heaven in life to go to heaven when he died.
>>24961281Neither heaven nor hell were what convinced him to change his ways, it was seeing that all the people of the mortal world had neither love nor respect for him.
>>24961281You only watched a movie adaptation. In the book all he's shown is that after he dies he'll be unceremoniously robbed by strangers and promptly forgotten.