Christian's bullshit

By Peacefully Hiding ~

Mankind can be a very cruel animal. When we think of cruelty it's easy
to distance ourselves from that reality because most of us are not
actually subjected to cruelty. For instance, who here has served time
in an interrogation room being water-boarded? Who has seen their
family massacred as part of a political statement? Who among us has
had the women in our family raped in front of our eyes for a burglar's
personal amusement? These things, these atrocities against one
another, are typically headline news that are soon forgotten.

Dante And Virgil In Hell by William-Adolphe Bo...
Dante And Virgil In Hell by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1850) (Photo
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A particular case of this comes to mind. The burglary, assault and
murder of the Petit family. To skip to the details, the mother
cooperated giving the robbers $15,000 from her savings to their
assurances they would leave the family unharmed. Soon after one of the
criminals raped her in her living room and strangled her with her fine
silk scarf until her face turned purple and eyes literally bulged from
her skull. This was after molesting her 11 year old daughter and
taking cell phone pictures of it. After murdering the mother the two
criminals poured gasoline over the mother's two daughters faces and
bodies, one 17, the other 11, and lit them on fire. The two burned
alive.

These two criminals are on death row and will be for awhile appealing
their conviction, though they were caught immediately after they set
the house and family on fire and confessed to the slaughter.

Mankind can be a very cruel animal.What, then, should we do to these
two criminals? If you read the full report online you'd be tempted to
give them the worst punishment you could imagine, for they deserve no
less and no mercy. One member of the jury didn't believe they deserved
the death penalty. They even have supporters. Yes, men who rape 11
year old girls and set them on fire have supporters.

Again we return to the question of 'what do we do to these two when
death isn't enough?'

Many who oppose the death sentence immediately opt for them being put
in jail for the rest of their lives and given 'prison justice'.

We can imagine the details of prison justice but what we fail to
recognize is the lack of responsibility on our part to punish these
people. Rather than punish we put them in the hands of human 'devils'
so to speak, who do their bidding for the eternal remainder of their
life on Earth.

Does this sound anything like the bible's description of hell? A place
where WE have no bloodshed on our hands. We hand that over to God and
his 'hell' device.

Hell, to me, seems like a mirror of prison justice. We need not feel
any guilt because 'we' aren't responsible for what goes on inside-
right? It's all God's decision.

Just as I feel allowing prisoners to rape and kill one another is
fundamentally wrong I feel that the idea of hell is wrong. It is an
extension of human thought, clear and simple, and we know human
thoughts are not divine, no matter how inspired they may be. If God
existed as he is written to be in the bible there would be no hell for
there would be no allowing criminals to allow themselves choices which
lead to hell. Why allow the birth of a murderer? To send them to hell?

It's more fair to say we do not understand what happens to us when our
lives end on this Earth. There may be a god who may punish but the
bible does a very poor job in describing such a phenomenon in a divine
manner devoid of human interference.