On another of the forums on which I post there is a Christian extremist who gets pleasure at the thought of people who don't share his take on religion burning in the mythical fires of hell. I am of the opinion people enjoy the thought of others in torment have a personality problems and require therapy. They aren't doing their faith any favours at all, just the opposite, especially as there is no evidence whatsoever a hell as an actual place exists.
Littleroses
It’s amazing that there are still some folk who actually believe this nonsense, isn’t it! It was excusable years ago, when the hell-fire preachers could stand up in their pulpits and do an Ian Paisley on the quaking parishioners below, with no one daring to question their ‘knowledge and wisdom’! In this day and age though, there’s no excuse at all!
I can understand the ancient leaders of tribes using the carrot and stick of Heaven and Hell though. It’s an excellent way of keeping the masses quiet and in their place. Both locations are promised after death, when there’s no chance of the deceased coming back and complaining it was all a con! It cost nothing, not a penny – far cheaper than a police force to keep law and order!
It has allowed those religious leaders to live well and do as they pleased, building great architecture and acquiring large estates. As beautiful as our cathedrals are, it grieves me to think of the poor in their hovels looking up at their magnificence, while the Archbishops who ordered their building, sat back in their palaces and lived the life of Riley!
The Mafia of recent times had nothing on those guys!
