Calling all atheists? Help?

Question

I just recieved a very rude email about my beliefs. Do you think that I should report this person or just leave it be?

This is the email : I will not try to push religion down your throat, but just keep One thing in mind:
If you don't believe there is a god, you better hope to HELL you are right! Otherwise you will burn there for ever!
If you believe in god and die and you were wrong. There is really nothing after this, you have lost nothing!
If you don't believe and god does exist, when you die you have lost every thing, because you will burn in HELL!
Go to the Kitchen right now, turn on the stove and put your Arms, Legs, Head and Body on the burners. You will get a Third degree burn all over your body and it will be the worst pain you have ever felt. Your flesh will melt off your bones. If hell exists, it will be that realistic and the pain and burning will last FOREVER!!
Like I say, I will not push religion on you or any one else, but just keep that in mind!!!

Would you be offended if you got this?

By the way, I'm only thirteen years old.

Answer 1

I'd report it, and I hardly ever report anything. Just because this happens all the time doesn't make it acceptable. Also, block the person, and keep your Q&As private on your profile, because you can be sure that a slew of malicious reports against you are going to be next. Part of the reason why we're always getting our accounts "suspended" (translation: permanently closed) is because we are always trying to "rise above" things and other people report everything, whether it's a violation or not.

Thank you for sharing this with us. It's always good to get as much insight as possible into the psyche of the mentally disturbed.

Answer 2

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Calling all atheists? Help?
I just recieved a very rude email about my beliefs. Do you think that I should report this person or just leave it be?
Answer: NO

This is the email : I will not try to push religion down your throat, but just keep One thing in mind:
If you don't believe there is a god, you better hope to HELL you are right! Otherwise you will burn there for ever!
If you believe in god and die and you were wrong. There is really nothing after this, you have lost nothing!
If you don't believe and god does exist, when you die you have lost every thing, because you will burn in HELL!
Go to the Kitchen right now, turn on the stove and put your Arms, Legs, Head and Body on the burners. You will get a Third degree burn all over your body and it will be the worst pain you have ever felt. Your flesh will melt off your bones. If hell exists, it will be that realistic and the pain and burning will last FOREVER!!
Like I say, I will not push religion on you or any one else, but just keep that in mind!!!

Answer:Romans 1:22
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

IN HELL:
You will receive a body fit for Hell and the Lake of Fire which will be tormented ever second by flames and the worm that never dies will gnaw on your body but it will not destroy it but you will feel every bit of pain.
Luke 16:24
And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.

Luke 16:23-25 (in Context) Luke 16 (Whole Chapter)
Luke 16:25
But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
Luke 16:24-26 (in Context) Luke 16 (Whole Chapter)

Revelation 14:10
The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
Revelation 14:9-11 (in Context) Revelation 14 (Whole Chapter)
Revelation 20:10
And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
Revelation 20:9-11 (in Context) Revelation 20 (Whole Chapter

Would you be offended if you got this?
Answer: No. It is the TRUTH.


By the way, I'm only thirteen years old.
Answer: Go to a early teen site not the real world with all its ugly Truth.

Answer 3

no. Because an ignorant person has sent the mail.
After death the brain stops functioning and there is no nervous system to feel pain. The Hindus will not go to hell because their body is burnt after death and they don't protest about being burnt.
There is a creator behind Creation sometimes referred to as the Universal Energy. It did not write the different Scriptures nor does it choose anyone special - whether you are a sinner in jail or a saint in a church.
all water merges into the sea and there is no identity after death.
Don't believe the parrots who by-heart the scriptures, are sanctimonious and think that they know everything.
Because they doubt their religion and their god they Try to impose or defend their god and religion to suppress their doubts.
Believe in what you will and ignore the barking dogs -who are insecure.

Answer 4

It's a hypothetical situation that they're posing, but it does sound threatening. I've had people say this to me, but not in this tone. If it's someone you see all the time (ie coworker, family member, teacher, classmate) I would consider telling someone with higher authority.

If not, then continue to avoid them. People like these are fundamentalists who take everything literally. Their interpretations are void of symbolism, meaning, and truth.

I wouldn't respond to the email, because this would only escalate the situation. Plus now you have some form of evidence against them. If they're not that crazy of a person, then you could try to have a conflict resolution mediator help you work something out. I don't know if it's worth it.

And what ever happened to the Christian hospitality? Most Christians I know are very caring people.

Answer 5

I am not an atheist, but a Christian. I don't believe it was right for this person to send you such an awful email. Just remember, that all Christians do not act like that. In fact, his beliefs seem rather twisted. You are a human being and you deserve respect just like everyone else no matter what you believe. Don't let this guy take away your joy and peace. Much love.

Answer 6

Well for one thing, the letter writer is a LIAR, a pathological LIAR, he said he won't push religion down your throat, and yet he mailed you an unsolicited e-mail shoving his religious beliefs down your throat. His letter is on par with an armed gunman who promises "I'm not gonna hurt you" and then proceeds to blow your brains out. So much for the rule in his religion against lying.

Second of all, not even original, just a terrorized version of Pascal's Wager.

I don't know if you can report e-mails as violations, but I would block this person. They sound like one sick, dishonest individual.

Answer 7

Yes. Reporting them is your choice though. I would retort back personally but do as you feel is best. It is offensive. Write one back to him saying and if you are wrong you will have nothing either, just empty blackness. No family waiting, no gates, no Jesus, no God, what will you do then if you find out you were wrong? Oh wait you won't, because if you are then the void will never be able to let your former life know you were wrong.

Or something like that, just don't be as rude as he was or turn him in or both!

Answer 8

I would be offended.

And if that email isn't an example of pushing religion on someone, I don't know what is.

All this person has to convince other people is fear. An appeal to fear is a fallacious argument and is totally without merit.

Answer 9

It's just a lurid version of Pascal's Wager, and wrong for the same reason - it assumes there are only two possibilities: no god, or god who'll send you to Hell for not believing in him.

Anybody unable to see through such a transparent logical fallacy isn't worth the trouble to report. Block him and forget it.

Answer 10

Of course it's offensive, but you can't let it bother you.
It's just Pascal's Wager yet again. One of the oldest and most easily refuted arguments there is. I wouldn't report it.
Just send them back an e-mail informing them that Hell is a fictional place invented by the people who made up their religion to scare superstitious, uneducated people into believing what they wanted them to believe.