Re: The case for hell

Bruce Geerdes <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.music.dadl.ot
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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.

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