Hell is Unjustifiable & Unethical
By: Jakub Ferencik
Tags: Christianity, Education, Society, Ethics, Religion

No one in their right mind would ever consider an eternal judgment to be an ethically sound sentence to the short life that we live on this planet. Maybe in the case of extremes, such as Nero, Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, or Pol Pot — we may consider extreme punishments — but STILL, we’d be quicker to analyze their sanity and probably grant them a quick punishment.

No modern day democracy views torture as an ethical punishment for wrong unethical actions. The death penalty is a misunderstanding of how Free Will works and how much our upbringing affects us.

Occasionally I stop thinking about Christianity and the beliefs I held when I was in my early & later teens. The longer I live, the more surprised I am that I once believed that people that don’t believe in things that are almost entirely out of their control — like belief, knowledge, & ideologies — go to hell after they die.

It is a sad misunderstanding of how much things like upbringing, culture, and our education affect us.

The more I read, the less I know.

You’d think that it would be the other way around. You may think that that is the case when you believe in the objective truth concept that Christianity and other Abrahamic religions hold. Well, in reality, that is not the case.

Reading more about Christianity would put you further into doubt about the belief, or the doctrines that the hundreds of denominations hold if you were sincerely open to difference of opinion. The fear, then, for some people is for that to lead to some sort of overt skepticism that disallows dialogue.

When in fact, it produces sincere humble desperation for ‘truth’ (as a discernible right action) and being honestly ashamed for being unable to express any idea accurately. I don’t think that I’ve EVER actually represented any idea in my life. You’ll never REALLY know anything. The idea of Hell is absurd, mainly because of how finite we are.

Hell is actually simply such a radically bizarre concept that I wonder often how anyone who believes in such a thing can sleep at night.

To give you one idea of why it’s bizarre and why people that believe in it are actually dishonest and inconsistent:

I actively disagree with God’s methods of judgment as being unethical and cruel. Hence, I think God is nothing close to being worthy of praise. Because of that, if I die, I am going to hell. Anyone who would ever care for my soul, should then never cease trying to persuade me/ pray for me (depending on how your understanding of salvation works). But few do.

That means either, as a Christian, you are:

(1) uneducated on the topic/ importance of hell in the Scriptures,

(2) hypocritical,

(3) judgmental,

(4) don’t take the Bible seriously,

(5) never thought about hell, or

(6) need to be radicalized (in the form of Jonathan Edward’s infamous sermon, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God).

Luther in hell: fineartamerica.com

Hell could be one of the most obvious faults of Religion, especially the Abrahamic ones. And it DEFINITELY is one of the clearest examples of inconsistencies among believers.

Then why do people in the 21st century still believe in hell?

The most obvious reason to why civilized people can still believe in hell is because of how much influence upbringing, culture, and intuitions have on us.

There’s probably no other explanation.

If you can think of one, please let me know.

Unless, you’re a psychopath and for some reason, you find it justifiable for someone who has lived a short life not believing in God (by all accounts, living an ethical life — just in a state of separation from God) and then deserving to burn in hell for eternity.

Burning in hell (or being punished) is just too bizarre a concept to be a credible solution to the sinful nature that we are born into.

I have suggested this elsewhere, but why in the world, would you ever want kids in such an existence? You are creating a human soul that now has the likelihood of burning in hell forever.

The concept of hell, then, is Still Absurd. I am happy (?) we agree.

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