Telling a kind, decent atheist they're going to Hell, IS A MESSAGE OF HATE?

Question

I think it's so hypocritical of Christians to proclaim their rejection of hate, yet feel perfectly comfortable telling altruistic, loving, caring, human being (who happen to be Atheist), that they're going to burn on Satan's BBQ forever. THAT IS a message of hate.

If I were Christian, I would begin to wonder whether Satan and God are identical twins.

"Telling the Truth" is no excuse for me.

Answer 1

At times, you are absolutely right. At other times, it's a message of mixed up thinking. Confusion and hate are not synonymous.

If your world view were infected with the idea that mosquitoes were a blessing, that somehow those itchy bites brought good fortune, you might stop your friends from using Back-Woods OFF, because it would keep the skeeters away. The belief is patently absurd, and the friends would indeed suffer, but from your world view, you would consider yourself as doing them a favor.

I know that it's silly, but realize you are dealing with people who are superstitiously convinced that there's some part of them that will survive their deaths, and that you're in a predicament that can be dealt with by simply coming to believe as they do. It's magical thinking, but they're convinced it's truth.

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Answer 2

I am a christian, and I totally agree with you. Honestly, I don't even like to be put in the same category as christians anymore. For some reason, a lot of christians forgot about the part where you are suppose to "humble" yourselves.

The Jesus that I know and serve is a loving God. Reading the Bible will tell you that He hung out with all the sluts, theives, murderers, ect. Why? Because He loved them just as much as He loved the rich and the people who had everything goging for them. Jesus never debated anyone. So, I don't know why christians feel the need to argue when someone disagrees with them.

Personally, I'll tell someone about my faith. But I'm not going to sit there and get ticked out because they don't understand my point of view.

Answer 3

hmmmmmmm
ok .. firstly.. I am NOT a Christian..... but what non-Christians have to understand is... that it is ACCORDING to the Christian faith that if YOU are not a Christian .. that you will go to hell .....

now two things here.. .
1.) If you're not a Christian .. then you don't believe in the Christian heaven anyway .. SO what does it matter what the Christians say ????
I mean it's like your trying to have your cake and eat it too... HEY MAN I AM NOT A CHRISTIAN BUT WHEN I DIE I WILL GO TO THE CHRISTIAN HEAVEN..

2.) according to Christians.. accepting Christ as the saviour is the way to gain entry into heaven... So look at it this way..
Jesus Christ is the Ticket into Heaven. It's like you won't get into a rolling stones concert with an ABBA ticket ..

so really we non Christians can't whine about being told we're not going to Heaven cos we DON'T have the right tickets,

Not a message of hate.. not at all.

Answer 4

nicely i'm not an atheist, yet I do have atheist acquaintances. most of the time i think of its neither. i don't think of they actual need you to burn in hell yet i don't think of they have a real subject for you, the two. they're doing what they have been instructed they're meant to do. they think of which will provide them brownie factors with God. What they don't comprehend is that the church is a business enterprise. A funds-making business enterprise. of course they % to recruit as many donating contributors as achieveable. And the main suitable thank you to do it rather is to cajole Christians that there'll be dire effects in the event that they don't help (and that it rather is their accountability, as good Christians, to "shop the heathens from the burning pits of hell"). Its a great revenues pitch, yet that's only what it rather is. some people only don't comprehend they're contributing to it

Answer 5

I usually ask them where they think they're going to be going. If they say "Heaven", then I say "Good, cuz I don't want to be anywhere near near you!"

That usually shuts them up.

[Since I'm an atheist, I really don't believe that heaven or hell exist and that there is nothing after death.]

Answer 6

Oh my goodness! I'm a Christian and one thing Christians aren't supposed to do is judge! We just preach and if they don't want to believe then we can't force them. There'll just be a time in their life where they realize they need God. Whoever told you that your going to hell is a hypocrite.

Answer 7

Well I guess Jesus gave a message of hate too, since he talked more about hell than he did about heaven.

Answer 8

I tell Christians they're going to hell too. I can imagine horrible places too and tell people that they're going there after they die as well, you know.

No, no, I wouldn't do that. I'm not an a$s.

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"On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life"

Yah, it isn't. That's just a rewording for NATURAL SELECTION.

1 "Race" to a 19th century naturalist simply meant distinct populations within a specific species, not necessarily human races. Indeed, human races, nor even human evolution are not discussed at all in Darwin's first book on evolution. And as such, given as how the "races" mentioned in Darwin's book included various pigeon and pig breeds, as well as certain mollusks, any claim that suggests that Darwin was "racist" is totally absurd.
2 Whoever makes or uses this claim has never so much as read any of Darwin's works, especially since "On the Origin of Species" never discusses human evolution in the first place.
3 "Race," ala "racial variant," is still used by modern-day biologists to refer to different populations within species, with no racist connotations, in fact.
4 "The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life" is the subtitle of Darwin's Origin of Species. It can be taken to mean the same thing as the later phrase "survival of the fittest" which was not coined by Darwin. The phrase illustrates a consequence of, not a basis for, evolution.

Answer 9

Ok. If somebody was about to jump off the 45th floor of a building, wouldn't you tell him: "Don't do it, you're gonna die?" It seems pretty obvious to me, that if you want people to live, you need to tell them what to do in order to live if they're heading toward a sure death.

Answer 10

No it's not Atheist just think it silly. Most of the Atheist I know will get a good laugh. We all know Religion is nonsense.