• Zombiepirate@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    They’ve hired a PR firm to address, in the firm’s words, the problem of “How did the world’s greatest love story in Jesus become known as a hate group?”

    More like how did “my dad’s gonna torture you forever unless you believe this hogwash” turn into “the world’s greatest love story?”

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      9 months ago

      You’re not seeing this right. He’s not going to do it, the devil is. And yeh he is all powerful so technically yes he is also allowing it to happen under his watch. But it’s only to teach you a lesson because he loves you so much. And he agrees on at least some level that burning in a pit of fire for all eternity is a fair, just and effective way for people to learn how to love him.

      • OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works
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        9 months ago

        Actually, in Christian lore the devil will be another inmate in hell, not the leader of it.

        Growing up, the justification for hell I always heard was this: No one is torturing you in hell. Hell is just the complete separation from God, which is in and of itself tortuous. God doesn’t want to separate you from him. But if you’re sinful, and haven’t accepted Jesus’s washing away of your sins, he doesn’t have a choice!

        I don’t really think this holds up, and honestly I’ve kinda forgotten why I was writing this comment in the first place.

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      9 months ago

      They made up their own story because they didn’t like the original with its reality of there being no afterlife + hell being a graveyard on earth for people mourning those they failed to respect, honor and love in life / heaven being a place on earth accessed via a mindset of what essentially boils down to communism - all of which is hard to exploit for power and profit without some switcheroo…

      And to answer the articles question: turning on fellow christians might have something to do with it.