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I voted fire and brimstone. It just seems more exciting.

Also, when I get around to starting my own religion, I think that I will get more donations if I scare everyone with fire and brimstone. If I just tell people that it is "an absence of God", people are going to respond "Yeah? So what?" And then I will get fewer donations.

Naah. It's just lack of imagination. Dante had a go at it with his circuses so it's about time more modern versions were invented. How about being stuck in a video game with teen agers shooting at you and you're the monster.

Actually... that's a really good summation of a valid Christian position. If you hate God with a passion, but there's nowhere you can go to escape Him, and if God is a consuming fire, and an unbending light, then you're really not going to like eternity much if you're not right with Him.

I'll tell you when I get there

Great if you can find a way. People have been listening for centuries for reliable reports and all that has appeared are poetic fantasies about how the author visualized his enemies would suffer.

Hell is a fictional concept invented to scare people into believing religions. Remember, you're free to disbelieve, but the God (who loves you) will torture you forever if you do. Make your choice.

Hell is a place where you have to struggle every day to avoid terrible hunger and thirst, where you spend years doing stupid useless things to gain what is promised to be happiness but it is a fraud, it is a place where demons who lie and cheat you constantly trick you into situations where you are tortured if you defy them. And at the end of this terrible time you will be utterly destroyed no matter what you believe or how you behave and the destructing will be by being eaten by microbic monsters or your own flesh will turn against you and grow into horrible bleeding stinking shapes and this will be insanely painful and nobody will help you.

Hmmm. That's where I am now.

Wouldn't Christians prefer to imagine their enemies suffering everlasting torment, rather than just being separated from God's love, in some sort of pleasant resort?

Sand: Where am I? What is this place?
H4X0R [=WTF=]: lol n00b
Sand has been killed by T67Y [Voss-LAR]
*Sand respawns*
Sand: That was a horrible experience, and not particularly funny.
PlayerDEATH: STFU lol
Sand: I see a jet plane. That might come in handy in this game.
Sand has been killed by PlayerDEATH [Teamkill]
Sand: Oh, for crying out loud...

Rince and repeat, for the rest of eternity.

It depends on the Christian. Historically some have. Historically some haven't.

"separated from God's love", however, is not considered a pleasant thing, as this separation is also supposed to be agonizing as well. The issue is that one claim is God removing something, the other is God actively doing something, so a difference that seems ethically important can be made. Most people would probably think that this distinction isn't *that* ethically important though.

I am not sure if you are joking, but I kind of like it too...especially spouted from the pulpit. I have not heard a really excited hell fire and brimstone preacher in ages.:lmao: It is even funnier because I envisioned him as a mouse.

LETTER FROM THE WARMER REGIONS

This guy in the other pit.
He's got a better demon than me.
His can taunt with a sharper wit.
Mine's mind is weak, I must admit.

Frank, over there, gets the common stuff.
Acid drip, disemboweling, a bit of frying.
You'd think these things were too rough,
But demons do their best by trying.

Sometimes my guy makes things fall off.
An ear, my nose, a nipple or a toe.
I've lost one lung - which makes me cough.
And other things. That's how things go.

But this process is a losing game.
(Pardon the pun) I've had to grow them back.
My demon's required to make me blind or lame.
His torturing suffered for the lack.

The first millennium can be a trial.
But you can accommodate to anything.
The red hot knives, freezing cold, drowning
Can, at first, evoke screams, make you sing.
But, after a century or so, brings only frowning.

My demon and I, between torture sessions,
Now entertain ourselves by playing chess.
Neither he nor I retain any aggressions
And he dislikes cleaning up the mess.

Heaven is Where:
The police are British, The Chefs are Italian, The Mechanics are Germans, The Lovers are French, and it's all organized by the Swiss.

Hell is Where:
The police are German, The Chefs are British, the Mechanics are French, the Lovers are Swiss, and it's all organized by Italians.

You know the name the threads of Wrong Planet have given to PPR?

An absence of God can take place in the here and now.