they keep saying that the Jews, the Catholics, the Atheists, or whoever else that don't believe the way they do, are going to hell.
I don't mean to generalize, it's just because the majority of the Bible-fundamentalists seem to have that attitude.
2007-10-07 04:58:09 · 28 answers · asked by Perceptive 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Atheist Eye Candy 18, yep "it" is. very scary. I wouldn't want to be around "it" for the rest of my life, much more spend eternity with "it". that would be hell.
2007-10-07 05:05:18 · update #1
I mean, that would be hell for me.
2007-10-07 05:06:41 · update #2
Good question. You have to follow the history back to the origins of ondern "fundamentalism" to understand this pattern.
The origins lie in the working-class whites of the South and lower midwest-Southwest in pre-WW2 times. This group developed a group identity that attempted to compensate for their low status and income by embracing white supremacy and excluding anyone not of their ethnic/religiouus persuasions.
During the Depression, millions of these poor whites migrated to other parts of the country--especially to the west. There, tey themselves were often discriminated against, especially during those hard economic times. The places they migrated to (especially California) were better off--but residents didn't want to support hundreds of thousands of what amounted to refugees.
The result was a degree of isolation--and the formation of a subculture that prided itself on being white, "Christian," "tough-guy" working-class, anti-communist, etc. And came to regard themselves as "sanctified and special to God."
Today, two-three generations later, those subcultures are still around andform the core of the fundamentalist cults and the "neoconservatives."
There's a very readable history of one group of those migrants and how that subculture developed--the "Okies" made famous by Steinbeck in "Grapes of Wrath." It's "American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Subculture in California" by James Gregory. I don't know if its in print, but you can get it on Amazon or in any good university library and many public libraries as well.
2007-10-07 05:16:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 2⤋
I do not gain any comfort from the fait of others.
Imagine this, a country suffers an outbreak of a fatal disease. A doctor works in a lab for weeks to come up with a cure.
The fact that his lab assistants are now telling everyone that the doctor has a cure, does not mean that they are happy because someone dies when they refuse to take the medicine.
Truth is truth and cannot be sugar coated because some believe it to be a lie.
If you are truly seeking; i dare you to pray to God and ask Him to reveal Himself to you, and show you the truth.
2007-10-08 23:50:43 · answer #2 · answered by Stargazer 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's because they are insecure in their own faith. They can never be sure if they ARE saved or not. Especially when they come across Christians (real or so-called) who don't believe EXACTLY as they do, and they have to wonder, do THEY know mroe than I do? Do THEY know what God's will is for our lives? Are we really going where God wants us to go? What if they're right and we're wrong.
Nope, they won't go there. Instead they just try to prove us wrong, and when they can't, they rely on the tried and (?), anyway, where they say "You're going to hell".
2007-10-07 08:12:23 · answer #3 · answered by mormon_4_jesus 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
because true christians received the Holy Spirit the Spirit of the truth so we cant lie . Jesus said that only a way is the way to the Father:Him! true Christians dont find comfort on it they only know that based in the world! people have free will and they can chose or not Jesus and pay the consequences or receive the consequences: eternal life or hell!time to accept Jesus read romans 10:9.
2007-10-07 06:57:43 · answer #4 · answered by alex a 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
I think some of the people you speak of may think they are "doing the right thing" but it is not there place to judge any person, someone elses heart or beliefs. I can't believe the nerve of some of these "well meaning" people.
God is Love and nothing they say changes that fact and only God is the judge, not some self righteous person who thinks they know-it-all.
Who died and made them God?
Granny
2007-10-07 05:27:18 · answer #5 · answered by ♥Granny♥ 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
I don't know any Christians who take comfort knowing that others are headed to hell. That's why they devote so much effort to warning people of the wrath to come and that God has made a way to escape it. If one rejects God's provision for eternal life through Christ, he sends himself to hell. God is not willing that any of us should perish but it is our choice.
Nothing in nature ceases to exist it only changes form. We have been created to be eternal beings.Jesus Christ died and rose again and He said in ( Revelation 1:18- John 6:57 - John 14:2)"I am He that liveth, and was dead: and behold I am alive forevermore...Because I live ye shall live also...I go to prepare a place for you" (heaven)
John 3:17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is not condemned; but He who does not believe is condemned already, because He has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
Revelation 20:15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. In Ezekiel 33:11 God says" I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked"Joseph stiles once said" Fix your eyes upon the very vilest sinner upon earth. Through death, this instant pass him up to heaven-with all his lust, and lies, and hate,and devilish heart-can he be happy there?"Our immoral nature requires a place called hell. We as Christians because we have escaped the coming judgment through Christ, have a responsibility to warn others to escape. It doesn't make us feel superior. And would be much easier to sit back and do nothing, and be sugary all the time. We know people are going to hate us when we tell them they are sinners who need a Savior.That is exactly what a lot of Christians do... They think , "I'm going to heaven, let everone else figure it out for themselves. No skin off my teeth."
The Bible says"( Ezekiel 3:18 - When I say to the wicked , You shall surely die," and you give him no warning , nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life, that same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at your hand.) It's much easier to say nothing, but it's not loving to the lost person, or obedient to the one we call our Lord. He has told us to spread the good news.
The effects of our sins are everlasting and so is the punishment for them.There is life after death and the Question is "where will you spend yours?"
2007-10-07 08:25:41 · answer #6 · answered by BERT 6 · 4⤊ 2⤋
I find that most Fund.Prots(FPs) and most Biblicist or Koranist Fundamentalists (including Feeneyite schismatics who left Catholicism or ROCOR Eastern Orthodox) definitely LOVE to hate and often exhibit great enjoyment in damning people to eternal torments and that does speak volumes about their internal spiritual health and emotional maturity( ie,lack thereof).
They are definitely into Schadenfreude, the "joy',usually smug, at the suffering of others which in their case is the suffering of billions of people who have never done'the Elect" a bit of harm.What this attitude has to do with the Lord Jesus Christ or His Beatitudes is beyond my powers of rationalization ,but,apparently not beyond that of many of these "saved' folks.
Do Fundamentalisms (including atheistic Anti-theism) produce this personality defect or do the varieties of Fundamentalisms attract people with these personality traits and mindsets or both?
Fallen human nature does seem to divide the World between "Them" and "Us' and to go with zeal beyond the ways of critiquing behaviors to poorly disguised hatred.
For Biblicist Fundamentalists text surfing with selective malice through the Bible is a favorite pastime. Of course FPs tend to ignore( or reinterpret beyond all recognition) the texts of Mercy and Justice and those that teach that God is Love,unless they can restrict thee texts of mercy and blessing only to themselves.
2007-10-07 07:10:52 · answer #7 · answered by James O 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
I am a Bible believing fundamentalist. I do not condemn catholics or anyone to hell. Romans chapter 10 forbids me:
Rom 10:
6: But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:)
7: Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)
This however, does not mean we cannot know the qualifications of heaven. But we cannot know if someone met those qualifications.
Perhaps the atheist whom is blaspheming God, accepted the gospel in Sunday School when he was 8 years old, and is still saved and doesn't know it, nor confessing it.
We can condemn belief systems, but we cannot condemn persons. We cannot see where their heart is.
Comfort is found in Christ and standing on His promises, which includes eternal security.
2007-10-07 05:20:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 5⤋
It makes them right and it gives them strength in their arguements. Or at least it makes them feel that it does.
That is the only strength they have...everyone has an inner need to be right, to win. And since the fundies cant prove their point, its the only way they can win is by threats of hell.
Its what they truly believe, its been pounded into their heads since they were children, and they have been brainwashed to believe it. They live in complete and total terror of it themselves so they must induce this fear into others as well.
Misery loves company as the old saying goes.
Blessings, light and love,
Aviana
2007-10-07 05:05:12 · answer #9 · answered by aviana_snowwolfe 3 · 7⤊ 3⤋
Why does it seem that atheists find comfort in accusing others of believing in fairytale-SkyDaddy-mythical stupidity?
Answer -- they don't. Not most of them. Same answer to Your question. Try not to mistake the loudest for the most numerous.
Meanwhile, try not to be silent when You know better.
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Okay, try this from the Duck --
"Ah, no Grasshopper... we do not spend a lot of time thinking about invisible, magical, imaginary sky-fairies... we are merely concerned about all of the gullibility, irrationality, willful ignorance, self-delusion, intellectual dishonesty, hypocrisy and drooling stupidity that is at large in the world. So, we consider it to be our ethical duty and moral responsibility, as sane and rational human beings, to confront ANY of those things, whenever and wherever we encounter them."
2007-10-07 05:09:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 5⤋