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[–] [email protected] 74 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

If i was religious at all, that would be the heighth of blasphemy and deserving of eternal damnation

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

what’s interesting about contemporary christianity is that it’s not even all that clear if the idea of “eternal damnation” is something that’s actually supported by the scripture. and yet it’s such a fundamental part of modern christianity, especially for the so-called “god-fearing christians”.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_universalism#Views_on_hell

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

If you go strictly by the bible, there is not eternal damnation, only in a sense that in the final judgement at the end of the end times, those who do not make it into heaven are simply destroyed, not sent to burn forever in hell.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The burning in hell part was inserted by Paul to keep people in line. It's Tartarus, from Greek mythology.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Fucking Paul again

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

That’s how the Episcopalians teach it.

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

And Adventists

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Trump ticks so many false prophet/antichrist boxes, it's insane, yet Christians love him somehow

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean that's also one of the tickboxes

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I imagined some really dry delivery to this line and it made me chuckle

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

There's more than one Christian that's noted that, including Christians on the right.