Re: The case for hell
Bruce Geerdes <[email protected]>
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On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 10:03 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Afterall, if all you need to do is say the right prayer sincerely? > One question being whether one *can* say "the right prayer sincerely" after "a lifetime of cruelty". I mean, if one *really* believes in a god and eternity, I doubt one would wait until his deathbed to make changes in his life. > You can be forgiven a lifetime of cruelty and and get paradise yet someone > who did good and worked to help people-but chose the wrong faith spent an > eternity in torture? > Christian heaven isn't just about "[doing] good and [working] to help people". > Douhat seems to ascribe more meaning from Hell than Heaven...kind of like > how many Christians prefer to define themselves by what they do not > do-rather than what they DO. > In this piece, maybe, but Hell *is* the subject of the day. I'm sure he'd describe Heaven as the "yes" in opposition to the "no" he wrote about. -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot