Conservative Christians claim to believe that everyone
who disagrees with any of their doctrines (and presumably, intertwined with
them, their political beliefs) will be condemned to uninterrupted torture
literally forever in Hell. And it is the God of Infinite Love that will make
this happen.
This is such an outrageous doctrine that nobody really
believes it. If you can believe that a God of Love can do this, then you have
the ability to totally jettison all mental faculties. Conservative Christians
(and perhaps extremist Muslims too, I don’t know) claim to believe it, but they don’t. They simply cannot make
themselves really believe it. If they did, they would be relentless in their
attempts to get us to repent of being Democrats. They would not just denounce
us but keep doing so in a desperate attempt to rescue us from infinite eternal
torture. When one of them talks to me, friendly banter is more likely to come
from their mouths than condemnation. And I believe that none of them would be
themselves willing to be the people who
subject us to eternal torture. They simply would not be able to stand over
us and keep us at the end of a poker and roast us and listen to us scream
forever. They probably couldn’t do it for five minutes.
That is, they—even the most ferocious of them—are more
loving and merciful than they believe God to be.
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