I hope hell exists, but only under specific conditions. First off, I think that no one should go to hell forever. This is because everything on our reality is finite, but eternity is infinite. So any crime committed on Earth, no matter how evil, is also finite, and can only rightfully deserve finite rather than infinite punishment. So I hope that evil people end up competing a "sentence" in hell, before they eventually make it to prison.They length of time they spend in hell should be determined by the severity of what they did, minus the punishment they received while alive. So someone who did something evil but was then brutally punished in while alive would only serve a short sentence in hell or maybe make it to heaven right away, because they were justly punished during their life. On the other hand, someone evil who was never punished, such as a serial killer who was never caught, would have to serve a lengthy sentence in hell before being allowed into heaven.The reason why I hope hell exists rather than everyone going to heaven immediately is that I hate the idea of reality of how unjust the world is. There are so many murderers, torturers, rapists, etc that do unimaginably horrific things and never face any punishment. It comforts me to think that there's a final justice that comes for everyone on a cosmic scale.
>>84916385Sweet, by your logic I go straight to Heaven. Suck my nuts, losers. Ahahahahaha just kidding, I'll see you up there. God loves jokes. We have fun, we like to have fun.
Nope you just return to Mu which is dreamless sleep
I want to clarify that I'm an atheist and deep down I know that this probably isn't true, but I wish it was. The fact that there's no inherent justice or good and that often evil wins is a hard pill to swallow.
>>84916385If you imagine spiritual afterlife, it doesn't exist within time. Material life exists within time. To be in time means to change. So if you physically die but still retain spiritual life in an afterlife, then your spiritual life will be outside of time and thus eternal, and will be shaped by how you changed yourself during your material life. If you lived a material life directed away from God, then you will concurrently lose any spiritually animating substance. If you lived a material life directed at God, it's like a plant in sunlight. I actually don't know if Christians have a definitive stance on the 'eternity of torment of hell' position, but I can be sure that being surrounded by devils in red tights poking you with hot irons and pitchforks more resembles a cycle of Buddhist or Hindu Samsara than does it map on to anything in serious western/Christian philosophy. >So I hope that evil people end up competing a "sentence" in hellYeah this sounds completely like an Asian folklore religion, where even the afterlife is a bureaucracy.
