Hell-
'Don't you know self-mutilation and suicide are sins? That their punishment is eternal damnation to hell?'
That's what they all say, right?
But then, what is hell?
Webster's Third New International Dictionary, unabridged, under "Hell" says: "from 'helan' to conceal." The word "hell" thus originally conveyed no thought of heat or torment but simply of a 'covered over or concealed place.' In the old English dialect the expression "helling potatoes" meant, not to roast them, but simply to place the potatoes in the ground or in a cellar.
Revelation chapter 20, verse 15, says: "Whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire." But verse 14 says: "And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire." Is hell itself to be tormented? And how can death ,a condition, be thrown into a literal fire? The rest of verse 14 reads: This [the lake of fire] is the second death."
How interresting! "Hell" is to be destroyed! Note, however, that the Greek word used here is Hades, which, also means "grave." Are the dead conscious or suffering in hell, or Hades? The Bible replies: "The dead know nothing...for neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge shall be in hell, whither thou art hastening."--Ecclesiastes 9:5,10
The Dogma of eternal torment is based on the immortal-soul theory. However, the Bible clearly states: "The soul that is sinning--it shall die."(Ezekial 18:4,20; see also Acts 3:23.)
Contradicting popular beliefs with contradictory dogmas. For unfortunately, religion has always confused paradox with inconsistency.
Christ said "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven."
But, then heaven wouldn't be the utopia we are made to believe it is.
Poverty of mind and body is considered a virtue, and it seeks to maintain this virtue by reward and punishment. But isn't being poor in soul the worst curse? Poverty of the spirit; that it is productive of all evil and misery, of all the injustice and crimes in the world. Nothing good ever came nor can come of the poor in spirit; surely never liberty, justice, or equality.
It should've instead been those, who might be poor in the society, but are rich in spirit, that should deserve the eden. Not the degraded spirit, reeking of poverty, with meager virtues and abundant sins. But then, I am not here to remodel the religion.
The reward in heaven is the perpetual bait, a bait that has caught man in an iron net, a strait-jacket which does not let him expand or grow. All pioneers of truth have been, and still are, reviled; they have been, and still are, persecuted. But did they ask humanity to pay the price? Did they seek to bribe mankind to accept their ideas? They knew too well that he who accepts a truth because of the bribe, will soon barter it away to a higher bidder.
The most hilarious contradiction in the bible:
- Matthew 5:22 [Jesus speaking] "Whosoever shall say "Thou fool," shall be in danger of hellfire."
* vs. *
- Matthew 23:17 [Jesus speaking] "Ye fools and blind."
So, will Jesus burn in hellfire? Or has the crucifixion suffised?
Hmm... I wonder.
Islam says a believer will get 72 beautiful, wide eyed, full bosomed virgins (houri) as wives in heaven. I had to recheck twice if it was Quran or Playboy magazine that I was holding. Wide eyed, virgins, full bosomed; if this is heaven, I'm not sure I would like to go to such a place where women are but awards, trophies, rewards.
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Non-Fiction---------------------Trigger Warning------------------- Originally titled 'All the Push You Need (and a little more)' this book intends to do what it says. It'll help increase your cynicism, deepen your depression, give strength to your demons, help...
