Hell.
What's so special about Hell?
Hell's where people are tormented eternally
That's the basic definition of it.
Hmm.
To some people,
Hell's where the bad people go.
To others,
it's where the unbelievers go.
And I look at it,
at the sheer idea of it,
a place where people are tortured
forever
and I have to stop
in my tracks
and ask,
"Why?"
To hurt someone,
forever and ever,
never giving them a chance
to ask forgiveness
just torment unto insanity and beyond.
How can such pain be loved?
How can a loving God
let his children be hurt so?
I went through hell for six hours,
or the closest I've ever come
to it.
I was bullied, shoved down
mentally and emotionally raped
by a person that claimed to love me
but said the most hurtful things
I had ever heard in my life.
And I tried to love him too.
My stepfather.
Others have gone through hell too.
Those in concentration camps,
in prisons,
in abusive relationships,
each with a point that they believed,
"I cannot be hurt any more than this."
Some say you can escape this possibility,
if you say the right things,
and believe the right things.
Some use Hell to threaten others.
"Believe in me and me alone,
or you're toast."
(If one converts through fear and violence,
then says that's not a nice thing,
even while still doing it,
is that hypocrisy?)
And I sit down to think.
...
And all I can think
is that no kind of love,
allows someone to hurt
that much for forever.
Some say,
that hell is the deterrent,
the reason people should behave in this life.
And yet, then they say
that if you accept Jesus
you're going straight to Heaven
regardless.
So murder someone, be a serial killer
then accept Jesus
and you'll be in Heaven
And the Jewish and Muslim Mother Theresa's
go to hell.
Jews believe in the Christian God.
So do Muslims.
So they go to hell?
It's mean-spirited
to judge people so
to say, or imply,
that one is going to hell.
Worse, it directly contradicts the Bible.
Doesn't Jesus say,
"Judge not, lest ye be judged"?
Let God do the judging,
and don't presume to speak for him?
Work kindness and love,
convert people through that,
and I will respect you fully.
But if it is in your religion
to believe I am going to hell
and if it is also in your religion
to remind me of this
countless times...
You have the right to say it.
And I will try to respect you,
although it's a lot easier
to respect one
who fully respects you and your decisions.
~~~~~
A side authoress's note, for those who are still reading the jabber I put up.
I fully planned to give this site up after "wakaru" until I read a review by berenwasteland on conversion. I can't quote it, but it quoted me...it mentioned how the current "conversion" methods were failing hopelessly and used me as his prime example, quoting something I said in anger and despair.
And, well, I felt ashamed...
So I came back, and I thought a lot. And I started something new. Not to convert people to Atheism, as I tried to, but to Kindness and Love.
I have had one person who has listened to me and chosen this way. I have seen no one convert to the Christianity as the hell-raisers preach it.
This is not a judgement on religion - it is a judgement on methods. Take it as you will. =)
Secondly, if you're going to review this, I will accept two topics. One, on the technical merits. Two, on the moral and theological ideas of it. Please review coherently, and with punctuation. Anyone from the Westboro Baptist Church (those of the GodHatesF@%$.com) will be skewered on my voodoo dollie. Anyone who uses obscenity in their review will be mocked with extreme prejudice. I'm nice, but not yet THAT nice. That's all I ask, mkay?
Sekai wo kaeru!
What's so special about Hell?
Hell's where people are tormented eternally
That's the basic definition of it.
Hmm.
To some people,
Hell's where the bad people go.
To others,
it's where the unbelievers go.
And I look at it,
at the sheer idea of it,
a place where people are tortured
forever
and I have to stop
in my tracks
and ask,
"Why?"
To hurt someone,
forever and ever,
never giving them a chance
to ask forgiveness
just torment unto insanity and beyond.
How can such pain be loved?
How can a loving God
let his children be hurt so?
I went through hell for six hours,
or the closest I've ever come
to it.
I was bullied, shoved down
mentally and emotionally raped
by a person that claimed to love me
but said the most hurtful things
I had ever heard in my life.
And I tried to love him too.
My stepfather.
Others have gone through hell too.
Those in concentration camps,
in prisons,
in abusive relationships,
each with a point that they believed,
"I cannot be hurt any more than this."
Some say you can escape this possibility,
if you say the right things,
and believe the right things.
Some use Hell to threaten others.
"Believe in me and me alone,
or you're toast."
(If one converts through fear and violence,
then says that's not a nice thing,
even while still doing it,
is that hypocrisy?)
And I sit down to think.
...
And all I can think
is that no kind of love,
allows someone to hurt
that much for forever.
Some say,
that hell is the deterrent,
the reason people should behave in this life.
And yet, then they say
that if you accept Jesus
you're going straight to Heaven
regardless.
So murder someone, be a serial killer
then accept Jesus
and you'll be in Heaven
And the Jewish and Muslim Mother Theresa's
go to hell.
Jews believe in the Christian God.
So do Muslims.
So they go to hell?
It's mean-spirited
to judge people so
to say, or imply,
that one is going to hell.
Worse, it directly contradicts the Bible.
Doesn't Jesus say,
"Judge not, lest ye be judged"?
Let God do the judging,
and don't presume to speak for him?
Work kindness and love,
convert people through that,
and I will respect you fully.
But if it is in your religion
to believe I am going to hell
and if it is also in your religion
to remind me of this
countless times...
You have the right to say it.
And I will try to respect you,
although it's a lot easier
to respect one
who fully respects you and your decisions.
~~~~~
A side authoress's note, for those who are still reading the jabber I put up.
I fully planned to give this site up after "wakaru" until I read a review by berenwasteland on conversion. I can't quote it, but it quoted me...it mentioned how the current "conversion" methods were failing hopelessly and used me as his prime example, quoting something I said in anger and despair.
And, well, I felt ashamed...
So I came back, and I thought a lot. And I started something new. Not to convert people to Atheism, as I tried to, but to Kindness and Love.
I have had one person who has listened to me and chosen this way. I have seen no one convert to the Christianity as the hell-raisers preach it.
This is not a judgement on religion - it is a judgement on methods. Take it as you will. =)
Secondly, if you're going to review this, I will accept two topics. One, on the technical merits. Two, on the moral and theological ideas of it. Please review coherently, and with punctuation. Anyone from the Westboro Baptist Church (those of the GodHatesF@%$.com) will be skewered on my voodoo dollie. Anyone who uses obscenity in their review will be mocked with extreme prejudice. I'm nice, but not yet THAT nice. That's all I ask, mkay?
Sekai wo kaeru!