Burnishing Bigotry - 3rd edition

P.S.S. Bart, do you seriously believe that anyone (other than an extreme masochist) would
ever choose to burn in Hell forever? I mean, I admit that I myelf would do so in order to help
others who are suffering there, but other than that quite rare exception your statement makes no
sense whatsoever … It's like you are saying that a child chooses to be whipped brutally a thousand
times whenever he talks back to his parents, which – as we all know – is either a punishment that
is fundamentally evil or a consequence that is fundamentally ridiculous. Of course no sane person
(neither child nor adult) ever chooses to suffer excessively …
Yes, we might choose to break the rules, and yet it is the parent & the parent alone who
then chooses to administer the brutal lashes thereafter, and thus it is the parent (in this case, God)
and the parent alone who is responsible for doing so.
So, my dear Friend, seeing as how true Divine Love either exists in unconditional
perfection or not at all – and seeing as how God is either a God of perfect Love, unconditional
Mercy & absolute Forgiveness or He isn‘t at all (see Matthew 5:48 + Luke 6:36 +
Matthew 18:21-22), why are you choosing to abide in & worship the latter in each
case – especially when Jesus himself so clearly said not to do so?
Bart: It is true that God will not ever send or condemn anyone to Hell …
… That CHOICE is ours.
Scaughdt: (sigh) Fair enough … Then it is safe for us all to assume that once we get to Hell, and
after we ―pay our dues‖ for that mistake, we will then be free to go … Even that version of events
does not resonate with the perfect Love of the Father as mentioned by Jesus Christ (a gentle Father
who would never allow His children to suffer even one millisecond for their innocent mistakes), and yet at
least it is a version of God who is far more just than the malevolent (if not downright evil) ―sinners
burn forever‖ version worshiped by most Christian evangelicals & fundamentalists.
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