As a Christian, I find this original post so sad. When I first read it, I seriously thought it was a non-Christian mocking Christians. Sadly, it's a Christian condemning atheists to hell when that solemn job only belongs to God.
It is another example of "Ugly Christianity". We have all seen it.
Our job is to present the gospel with humility and love because there is a heaven and hell.
Do you want people to go to hell or do you want them to go to heaven?
Yes, we have encountered many arrogant atheists, but this original post must be deleted so it stops appearing as the first topic in this Religion section.
Please do the right thing and delete it.
I would say let it sit there, even though i disagree with the idea that hell is someplace else, other than here and now, and disagree with the idea that Judeo-christians aren't in hell, here and now, with those of us whom they feel will be condemned.
Your basic belief system functions as a dog whistle, so let us not be surprised when dogs come for their pound of flesh. I feel you could take more responsibility for your message, and how it insults any god that is actually Good, despite a soft-peddle cloaked in "humility" and "love".
I would remind all Judeo-christians that they too, are atheists, in regards the Christ that i am promoting. There is zero belief in the Good that i promote, not just agnosticism, but an actual pretense to knowing that the Good i promote does not exist...so much so, that, for example, the most zealous Judeo-christian here at ET has me on ignore. Ignorance is really what atheism is all about.
Every Judeo-christian here is attempting to step in front of me to gain converts for your brand. In any other age and place in political history, they would use the power of the majority to crush the message of the Good that i've been promoting. So yes, it's better to be voluntarily humble, and not just because Judeo-christianity has lost deadly political power some centuries ago.
My question for you is, why do you think that you are not included, right here and now, among that/those which have been condemned to hell?
Do you think you are currently located in "middle earth", or some kind of purgatory, which is neither heaven, nor hell? What makes you think that a garden was planted outside the gates of heaven, to be used for produce, some to be taken inside the gates, and some to be discarded in the dump (hell)? What makes you think this paradigm, which is what Judeo-Christianity promotes, isn't itself blasphemous, and worthy of condemnation?
In regards the making of hell, you must admit, and i think you do, that it is already, or will be soon, made by god, for the discarding of the produce that grows in the garden that is not worthy to be brought inside the gates. If it is true that hell is made by god, why do you feel that just because god made the galaxies, that the galaxies are not hell?
Further corroborating my point there is John 3:17 (not to be confused with John 3:16) which says that those who do not believe are
"condemned already". Here then, is biblical support for the idea that you are already here, in hell, right now. How could you not be? There was some point when you did not believe in Christ. Why do you think you were not already condemned? And still, if what i'm saying is true, you STILL don't believe in Christ.
If so, how have you escaped the condemnation of hell yourself?
