So, I posed this question to a friend of mine recently. I had never really thought about it before. Put aside what any religious doctrine has ever told you.....could you tell me what kind of crime could warrant the ultimate suffering for all time? Seriously!!Think about it. Say some guy horribly murders 20 people with an axe. He then adorns his car with their body parts and drives around for all the world to see. The police catch, try, convict, and sentence him to death. Now, there would be no shortage of people who would say that this guy deserves to go to hell. But, I ask you this.....
So the guy is executed and ends up going to hell. Lucifer decides that his punishment will be that his skin is flayed off every day with a cheese grater and a potato peeler, his eyes will be devoured by birds (inspired by Prometheus), his hair will be set on fire, he will breathe nothing but chlorine, and, at the end of the day, he will pass a softball-sized kidney stone. He will, of course, be regenerated every time and this process will repeat indefinately.
Now, this guy goes through this for, say, 100,000 years. Talk about ultimate suffering! My question is, can anyone tell me that that's not enough punishment? I personally believe that, if there is a hell (or something like it), then people should be able to redeem themselves after so many years of ultimate suffering.
Think about it....what kind of sin/crime would warrant an ETERNITY of ultimate suffering...never to end...for all time....forever and ever?
This is a rhetorical question. You don't have to answer (although, comments are welcome). This is just something that I was thinking about yesterday. I personally don't believe in hell.
Cheers! :)
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Well...if you think about it, the devil wouldn't be doing the punishing. God would be doing the punishing by handing over the souls to Lucifer (via St. Peter and his little lever-triggered trap door). Maybe Lucifer simply wants to grind meat. Maybe he doesn't care about how we lived our lives.
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