There is something called the Problem of Hell. It goes a bit like this:
1. Hell is a place of eternal punishment and torture.
2. God is all-loving and all-good.
3. A God that has these properties (from 2) would not send people to Hell.
4. Therefore, either Hell does not exist or God does not exist.
Religious suffering is at the same time an expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
Karl Marx, Philosopher, Sociologist, Economic Historian, Journalist, and Revolutionary Socialist
I submit to you that “dead before life” is the same as “dead after life”. Why shouldn’t it be? Every time someone is born, they go from being dead to being alive. All of us know exactly what it’s like to be dead, because we each have experienced it.
By Madison S. Hughes (01.01.2011)
The forfeit of critical thought to religious indoctrination as a moral compass is not only ludicrous, but also unwarranted! Vicarious and empathic acquaintance is sufficient without such surrender.
Being able to go beyond our instinctual desires is the main thing that separates humans from animals. Still, I’m sure we all know just how hard it is to overcome our instincts. It’s hard to resist a beautiful woman, for example, and some men can’t (rapists). Still, from nature’s perspective, rape is a perfectly legitimate way of passing on your genes, which explains why there are rapists in the world. Ironically, if all raped women aborted their children perhaps rapists would die out.
