Why do you believe that every single person deserves eternal torture? (for those who do)?
368450
Eternal torture is perhaps a misleading term.  Eternal separation from God is more accurate.  God is perfect, and we chose (by eating forbidden fruit) to be imperfect.  It was our choice.  In making this decision, we forfeited the ability to atain perfection on our own.  No matter how good natured we are (and most people are), we are not stain free.  Even as adults, we do things that hurt others and take us further from perfection.We cannot return to a perfect God if we are Imperfect.  That is why he himself (as Jesus) sacrificed his own perfect self, so he could GIVE us the perfection we could never attain on our own.  If we refuse to accept this gift, if we refuse to admit that we cannot be perfect, no matter how hard we try, no matter how good we are, then we remain imperfect and cannot return to God.  The common notion of hell was concieved by Middle age monks and radicals and have no foundation in scripture.  By my translation (which I cannot guarantee is correct), Hell does not yet exist, and won't exist until after the End times.
763698
I know that's right.  Satan wants us to think WE are the ONLY ones going through things, like pain.  \n\nBut,There is ALWAYS someone worse off than we are......
628189
Because they are depraved sociopaths at heart, who think they themselves would go on a murderous rampage if not for the fear of hell and desire for heaven.\n\nHow else can you explain such a perspective?
1021146
I agree with you whole heartedly. I think you create your destiny and sometimes that includes a personal Heaven and a personal Hell. We all are creative of our outcome in any / all lives. I'm sure we fit into a bigger picture that most of us here cannot fathom, but it all revolves around love and if that's not part of your life at some point I believe you're destined to a personal Hell. I don't need any religion to help me understand this. When I say Hell I don't mean a fiery chasm where people burn for enernity...nor do I mean a place where an evil horned creature tortures you. I very simply mean a place that is unhappy and unfulfilling to your heart and soul. Some people find this place and choose to find a way out through Love and some people find this place and choose to do harm to themselves and others. In any case... I certainly don't believe in most religions concepts of Heaven and Hell.\n\nAnd I believe answers like the one below mine are the most pressing reasons why the world in in the shape that it is. People who endorse Guilt, Suffering and Repentance in the name of God are responsible for the Suffocation of other Souls. Life can be daunting enough without Holier than Thou assholes prancing around preaching the good book to you and expressing that you're going to Hell where the Evil horned creature tortures you for eternity if you don't "repent" or convert to the "right" faith. As if a "proper" faith exists. News flash to all of the bible banging whack jobs out there... If I want to worship a tree or a rock or Krispy frickin Creme Donuts, I'm not goin to Hell. And if for some reason there is a Hell and I go to it... I'll be sure to see all of you there!
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Because God has a cruel sense of humor and likes watching us strave, suffer, and die in torture. Makes life seem meaningless more by the day doesn't it? Though their theory seems to be. We make our lives what it is... (even though I don't see how we choose for other people to kill us, abuse us, or anything.)  Which I suppose means anything that comes your way... you can either Accept it and be hurt... or Deal with it, do something about, and Hope you come out above everything.
1079210
To destroy all other cruels..
347385
You don't deserve to go to heaven. Since we all sinned, we deserve to go to hell, but by God's AMAZING GRACE and LOVE for us, He sent His only Son to die for our sins and offered us everlasting life because He loved us so much He wanted us to spend eternity with Him. Email me if you have questions or are a fellow believer in Christ at questinchrist@yahoo.com. God bless
98861
They deserve hell as their religion prescribes. No one should ever preach to kill, for ANY reason.
567250
First, I believe you cease to exist.  Then, if there is a God then he must be a just god.  I raised 4 children.  When they misbehaved they got punished.  But I never burned them nor did I punish them for the rest of their lives.  If the bible is true then I am made in god's image.  Unjust punishment is repulsive to me.  The thought of burning people actually was something the pagans did, casting their children into the fire before their god Mo'lech.  The bible says that was something that never came up into his (God's) heart.  (Jer. 32:35)  If that is true then HELL must be something religious leaders invented to scare their partitioners into following THEIR laws. (i.e. contributions)\n\nThe bible says the wage sin pays is death (Romans 6:23).  Therefore, whoever dies has paid for their sin.  Why would they be punished after suffering death?  Doesn't seem just to me.  What's more astounding is the thought of no parole.  Suffer eternity for what you did in only one lifetime?  I thought God was supposed to be just.\n\nSo, I know (believe) that at death you simply sleep a sleep from which there is no dreaming nor awakening.
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Do you enjoy torture?
1003224
Agreed, and just for a preemptive strike I'd like to mention that someone will almost certainly come in here and say "IF U DUNT BELEAVE N HEL DEN Y R U AFEARD UV IT?! !! LOLZOAZLO"\nTo this I say, if someone threatened you, and perhaps even many of the people you love with torture would it not upset you even if you knew they would never actually go through with it? Isn't just the idea that they take pleasure in the thought enough to piss you off? I know it is for me.
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Only if they want to be ridiculed.\n\nThe religious person says "If I'm wrong, I have nothing to lose.  If you're wrong, you'll burn in hell" (or some such nonsense).  Sadly for that person, this is wrong.  If you believe in the Christian god, and it's actually the Muslim god who exists, you're going to burn in hell for all eternity - the Quran says so.  If you believe in the Christian god and he's an evil sadist rather than a benevolent god (a reasonable assumption, considering the incalculable suffering that he - supposedly - presides over in the world), then he will take great delight in sending the most fervent believers to eternal torture and keeping us atheists in paradise, just to make your torment that much the worse.  If there is a god and he values reason over blind faith, he will reward atheists and punish believers (since they have no justifiable reason to believe that any gods exist).  \n\nAny genuinely religious person would spend their lives eternally tormented by the possibility of believing in the wrong god and ending up in some other hell, or offending the Christian god and ending up in his.  If you don't feel this way, then you can't be a genuine believer.\n\nAtheists, of course, have no such worries, since we know that when we die, we cease to exist.  You spend your life sweating over the prospect of burning in hell, and we'll live comfortable lives without fear of what might happen in the next life, because we know there is no such thing.
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This is one of the reasons why I stopped being Christian and became spiritual instead.  I don't believe in an all loving supreme being condemning his children to eternal torture and damnation. \nI especially found the "burning in the fiery pit of hell"  harder to believe after I had kids of my own.  I loved them so much, that I could never hurt them (for eternity) just because they did something I declared as wrong.
802008
Just place yourself in the shoes of the one being tortured, or the one being enslaved in a concentration camp, or the one about to be killed in cold blood for no reason other than existing, and then think again before asking such silly questions.
280814
I don't think anyone wants to go.  But there are many bound for its gates.  I think this is from a total lack of true understanding of what hell is.  Imagine being totally cut off and separated for eternity anu hope, joy, love, happiness, comfort, peace, and harmony.  Imagine instead being locked into the anithesis of these things, being totally given over to our darkest and most detesteable desires and tendencies.  This is hell.\n\nBTW- there is no reigning in hell.  Wherever you go;heaven or hell, you will serve a master.  Choose wisely.
509442
no one, hell doesn't exist.  It is a figment of imagination which was created to keep people in line and force them do do what their 'masters' wanted.
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It's because they were told as children they'd be eternally tortured if they dare think a different way. It's abuse and mind control at its finest.