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[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The man who claims that 17% of gay men eat feces

Every accusation is a confession

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

17% of gay men eat feces

Why? Are they fond of eating at Golden Corral?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (3 children)

There is hope for everyone to get to Heaven, but by no means should we on Earth be making pronouncements on which specific people are in Hell. That's way above our paygrade and I'm happy to keep it that way. People like this just make all Christians look stupid.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (3 children)

There is a list of people I expect to be there. If the most heinous examples of total pieces of shit known to humanity are not in hell then the term is meaningless. Not that there is any evidence to support its existence.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Agreed. The OP comment suggests it's above my pay grade to suggest Hitler would go to hell if it exists, which is just baffling.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Infinite punishment can never be just for anything done in a finite time, no matter how henious.

Not that I'm saying hell or heaven exists, but if hell were truly eternal, it couldn't be just even towards to worst of the worst.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How could anyone even know hell is infinite? Humans have been around, what, ~10k years? ~6k years of you're a young earth creationist. Six million life sentences (call it a hundred years) wouldn't even have begun to be complete.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I'm just going by the commonly accepted canon. Perhaps a temporary hell would work, maybe, though that concept already exists in Christianity as purgatory which is not commonly thought to be the same thing.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

From an actual christian viewpoint, it is. "Vengeance is mine (alone)"

Edit: Actually, a reference isn't hard to come by, so https://biblehub.com/niv/romans/12.htm

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I genuinely have no desire to read Bible references at this point in my life.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Didn't Hell get made up relatively recently, like only 200 years ago? OG Christianity was all about everyone getting into heaven.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Didn't Hell get made up relatively recently, like only 200 years ago? OG Christianity was all about everyone getting into heaven.

Nah, it’s in the Bible though it isn’t called “Hell.” I vaguely remember a specific verse referring to the place prepared for the devil and his demons or something like that. Also there are Hebrew references to “Sheol” that some interpret as Hell.

Also even if it were more recent than the Bible itself, 200 years ago was the 1820s. Martin Luther grew up terrified of Hell as it was preached by the Roman Catholic Church in the late 1400s/early 1500s. And Dante’s Inferno was written in the 1300s.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Nah even Judaism splits the afterlife up into “hells”. And the New Testament mentions it too.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Jesus warned people very, very frequently against going to where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth AKA Hell. It was one of his favorite subjects.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

All christians are stupid.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Many religious people are misinformed. Christianity does not have a monopoly on dumb.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

You're right. All religious people are stupid.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm glad you're honest about what you think of me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

You're an adult who believes in fairy tales and follows the selected writings of people who had no other way of explaining the world. Christianity is hateful, patriarchal, and along with other major organized religions, responsible for most of the pain and suffering in the world.

Grow up.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

by no means should we on Earth be making pronouncements on which specific people are in Hell

Fuck that. I can tell you specifically who are in Hell right now: the same people who are in Hades, Narnia, and Mordor.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Who is the degenerate that is in Hades?

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

So what? Stop inflating the platform of these creepy weirdos. Don't print this.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

Those people love their make-believe

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

Dude looks like a Far Cry villain

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This douche is located at 3900 Fm 972, Georgetown, TX 78626 if you guys feel like sending your support mail.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

That would be exceptionally supportive.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

He will probably think that it's from an admirer.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If gay people go to Hell and Trump supporters to Heaven.... Satan, here I come!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It's a better party anyway

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

All the interesting people are down there.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Dude somehow looks like a more evil version of Matt Walsh.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Yet another weirdo Trump supporter.

They're not even trying not to be weird anymore.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

My grandfather always told me he wants to go to hell because that's where the rock stars are. That's where the party is. 🤘

Heaven is where the hypocrites go.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

As Billy Joel said, "I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints. The sinners are much more fun."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Do not be judging others, that you yourself may not be judged...

Referring to the preacher in the article.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

No Christ in Chtistianity it seems

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Further confirming my theory that Hell is actually the real Heaven and you definitely don't want to go to the fake one by accident and suffer eternity with those people and that "God".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

This is the bad place?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Love thy neighbor unless they are black - GOP Jesus.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Honestly, if all of the religious people are in heaven I think hell is the place for me.

Though the most likely place for will be rotting away in the ground with out any sort of awareness, because there is no afterlife

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

We don't care

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

"I get to hate people for money! I love America!"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Dude looks like Mirror Universe David Wallace (from The Office)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Makes sense that he has to believe this, otherwise he'd be hellbound in his own view

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

MLK was reincarnated on another planet to complete a new task. Racists are reincarnated as a member of the people they were racist against. Life's about growing, if you devolve into a racist, it has to be made up in another life, or go straight to hell for refusing to grow as a sentient.

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