Children and hell...?

Question

Just looking for opinions, not a conversion...

Does anyone believe that it's a scare tactic these days instead of being an integral dark side to a religion? It frightens me when children talk about going to hell if they do something bad. I feel so sorry for them that they have that burden at such a young age.

Answer 1

i do so too empathize for those which have this burden.

whilst some preachers and their followers ...whom depending on their denomination are led out into the valley of death to carry messages the preachers may believe but not wish to carry out their self.

having witnessed some denominations to this perturbs me.

it amounts to a collection of (accepted) sinners....believing they are saved by some spoken agreement and then to deliver the messages and/or collect the sins of those whom have not joined their creed or to imprison due to their greater sinner public profile.

**rolls eyes**

....let the sinners..(..<..those who fear ) which have gathered go out and collect the sins (..<..fear ) of those whom have as yet been ungathered. let not love of them deter you from their imprisonments and let fear of them make greater your salvation.

is there something a little twisted in this now practical theological hypothetical..?

mind you ... i have no interest in up-setting the religious or religions per se.

but then.....when feign persons manipulate punishments (and therefore hell and historically law) to correct and socially condition society which meets not their expectations of what is a christian person or society. feign persons whom believe not in love reach into their armoury's to find a tool of destruction.

...or to serve a paper (un/knowingly) to an other to remind a pertinent other of previous sin(s)...(as may be criminally deciphered)...so that imprisonment or more or less be corrective.

in canada....there has been good news in that we are less condemned over the past decades by our sins and crimes while incarcerated. i suspect from what i have saw on u.s. television programming documentaries this is less a fact within the u.s. (depending).

but also in canada....love is not yet evolved enough to correct beneficially those whom may be prisoner or imprisoned. i have faith that we are moving in that direction.

i hope the u.s. will respond.

it will show this when the neglected of health and body of children are less a scientific statistic approving of the elite which incarcerates them and benefits by their incarceration.

social acceptance need not begin within a church or within a prison. and that social acceptance with a purpose for a person which approves of love and worth enable any and all to participate....or not if that person determines to venture off alone respectfull of human and all of nature.


be well

*edits*inserts*

it is like walking into hell to ask christians to explain hell.

they don't know about their own souls. but they are darn sure about hell. hello.........do you see that fear is controlling you again.?

curious isn't it..?

the roman catholic creed negates personal soul. exactly for this reason.

so that the catholic creed may gather its' energies and conscious away from personal conscience.

this is the danger of aryanism.

"to heaven with my own conscience. but by social reasons/causes shall i (we) get there."

in other words. they don't have to be personally responsible.

all they have to do is throw in their minds/souls/bodies to the collective which are more or less as confused and abide by church leadership...which is government managed.

i gently advise each of you to consider this rationalization.

if you think/feel that you must obey church doctrine to attain your own salvation. may you be misled...????

aryanism. the belief that god do not exist within us. but that we must appease God by heeding His Laws to go to Heaven. and if not to obey His Laws. to Hell we may go.

whether or not other denominations are similar to this i won't speculate. nor do i wish to debate it.

i am a believer in God. i am a believer in Creator and Creation.

and i believe because Belief is within me.

hell....?......i don't believe in it.

and frankly fellow christians. many a child has been abused by your irrational doctrines. and i will not be condemned to speak what i believe. you are created in the image of the Creator.

that is how you should know God Be With You.

when you have read Conversations with God many of you will be silently surprized and others less silent with relief.

or.....do mainstream religions and their denominations believe that any messengers shall arrive in mainstream and denomination..?

i am not going to hell. and you can't make me.


*kisskiss* .... love you much.


be well

Answer 2

Have you seen Jesus Camp? The camp leader talks about children as if they were soldiers and says that you need to scare them into believing before they turn 12 or something. They are more concerned with numbers (aka money) than the well being of these kids. It's scary what some people will do.

Answer 3

It's a scare tactic. Kids believe in Hell, Heaven, Santa, the Easter Bunny, and Barbie.

Answer 4

It never hurt me and to be very precise it kept me from completely going wild a few times. I couldn't get drunk because I was afraid of how I might displease God. I didn't sleep around before marriage because I was afraid of going to hell for fornication.

I feel so sorry for our children that they have the burden of seeing pornography on our TV's, violence beyond imagination, half clothed young women wherever they go, gays kissing in front of them, guns pulled in school and fellow students killed, knives pulled in schools and blood everywhere and drugged up, doped out, booze stinking teenagers driving cars because parents won't teach their children about the love of God and a place called hell.
etc. etc etc etc

Answer 5

Children don't go to hell for doing something bad--so if someone is saying that, they are not telling them the truth.
It is sin--and it is what sends us to hell, without forgiveness in Jesus Christ.
Many children do know the gospel and I think its awesome! More children understand the gospel than adults.
But we who have children who are saved should always remind them God loves them EVEN when they do something wrong....that they are forgiven and that God wants them to do what is right--and will help them do what is right, and teach them to ask for forgiveness when they do wrong. But Jesus still loves us!

Answer 6

Children up to a certain age wont go to hell, they are innocent. But, when they loose their innocence they know how to choose between right and wrong behavior. It's not a burden to simply choose to behave or not.

Answer 7

I agree. Children should NEVER be told they're going to hell. It is a scare tactic, and it's wrong for parents to use it. It makes me really glad my parents never tried that.

Answer 8

I do believe that it is a scare tactic used to try to keep people in line. It would make much more sense to instill ethics and morals in children, than to try to scare them in order to try to get them to behave.

Answer 9

I think that the threat of going to Hell probably is a ploy to get people into acting as good as they possibly can.

Answer 10

In my Baptist religion, we teach that children don't go to hell. Only after the 'age of reason' and if they reject Jesus, do they have to worry about going to hell when they die. So lighten up, folks.

Answer 11

I know and people think that they are doing their kids a favor when they tell them. I say just tell them there is a heaven and a hell and that God is in heaven.

You can tell them when they are older.

better yet let them find out for themselves