Is Hell actually a more preferable destination than Heaven?, page 2

Originally posted by EverythingYouDespise
It seems to me that, if you accept Christianity as truth, one would actually prefer "damnation" over joining God in Heaven. Before I go on, of course, I should point out that I don't buy into the whole idea of eternal physical torture at the hands of demons in a lake of fire. From what I can gather, that popular image of Hell is a fairly new concept cooked up by priests in order to scare us into following orders.

So what is Hell really like? Well, since there are so many differing ideas of what exactly Hell is, I'll use the definition provided by the Cathetism of the Catholic Church:

'We cannot be united with God unless we freely choose to love him. But we cannot love God if we sin gravely against him, against our neighbor or against ourselves: "He who does not love remains in death. Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him."610 Our Lord warns us that we shall be separated from him if we fail to meet the serious needs of the poor and the little ones who are his brethren.611 To die in mortal sin without repenting and accepting God's merciful love means remaining separated from him for ever by our own free choice. This state of definitive self- exclusion from communion with God and the blessed is called "hell." '

Basically, the way that translates to me is that Hell = an eternity spent apart from God.

Now let us consider the path that leads to this supposedly miserable punishment, and the opposite path that leads to what is surely a truly wonderous reward.

To cut right to the point, let's just examine the cardinal sins. This gives us a general idea of what God considers bad behavior, deserving of his eternal scorn:

Lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride.

Depending on one's interpretation, as many as all seven of those could much more easily be seen as virtues when you're trying to live an enjoyable life instead of following orders, and without the first - lust - the species would go extinct within a single generation! And when should it ever be considered wrong to be proud of oneself?

I'll tell you when. When you're a subject of the most vain entity in history. God wants nothing but blind obedience and praise from human beings. He does not appear to want us to be happy at all, and explicitly commands us not to seek knowledge or strive for success and wealth.

So why would you expect him to do a complete 180 once you're dead and in Heaven? If you've spent your entire life denying pleasures and slavishly adhering to a ridiculous doctrine, do you really think the reward will be a paradise?

I'd much prefer to spend eternity in Hell, where surely all Earthly passions and pursuits are held in the highest esteem - finally free from the reach of that great party-pooper in the sky. And, as an added bonus to being eternally separated from God, imagine the wonderful company of the other damned souls! Philosophers, pleasure-seekers, artists and the like, enjoying everlasting orgies, feasts and merryment. Heaven, meanwhile, would be full of slaves and prudes.

Your dealing with laws and languages of the past that were the beginning of the renewal to this world after much of it was devastated by the great war. The very end of the book. Unlawful and disobedient people of the past is where "God" had set the boundaries of peace and order. The middle east is very much a remnant of that past. The Syrian Peninsula is one of those boundaries. If you would like to live in a society that has distanced itself from the past it only leaves one choice but to remove that philosophy as a whole. The time of the King James Bible has past as well as the days of Catholic oppression. And those were the days of black and white television.

In any sense nowadays if your going to Hell then the philosophy of devastation to your life therefore applies. A state of ruin. And Heaven is the grandiose lifestyle that appeases the Church's convicting of those chosen to damnation. . . . of course there are those that have risen the ranks to the Angelic Order of Satan. For example Magog and the rest of the Bush Family, including the Clintons. They will raise their horns again. Their forces will join again and attack Heaven. Christ will rise. Jesus will commit suicide. Bread baskets will pass on to the next. Hands will shake the unfortunate few and thank God their not going to Hell . . . this time around.

Just don't stand too close to the fire and stay true to the word of the Lord.

\w/ UP THE HORNS!