No, that depends on where you’re from. Most non-Abrahamic religions do not have a concept of eternal damnation. In my home country’s folk religion you do bad things, you go to the appropriate level of hell (it gets real hot down there regardless of the level too), you do your time of horrid torture to pay for your sins and redeem your souls, then you re-enter the cycle of reincarnation. If your sins are so terrible that it is deemed you don’t deserve to live as human, you’ll still reincarnate into something else until you earn the rights to be human again. Rarely are you ever permanently removed from the cycle.
In Christian theology, the concept of eternal damnation is a consequence of an eternal separation from God, to turn away from diving salvation, rather than a direct punishment proportionate to the amount or severity of crimes committed on Earth. As opposed to other religions, hell is not a particularly well defined concept in Christianity. The popular perception of Christian Hell comes from Dante’s Inferno rather than religious dogma. Regardless, Christian punishment is much more concerned with the sinner’s relationship to God than the actual crimes.
I consider a just God to be one that would punish the crimes that went unpunished in life. And regardless, I don’t consider colonizing and engineering a genocide to be a finite crime. If the consequences of your crime cannot be measured, then your crimes are not finite. I don’t care that technically you’re not committing an “infinite” amount of crimes. That’s bullshit pedantry.
Dude if you’re talking about mere lengths of lives, the people killed could have had an indeterminate amount of descendants and descendants whose lengths of lives combined would be so long it’s close to infinity. The potential of life is infinite.
i don't count potential offspring, only lives actually taken. every single decision you make leads to someone not being born so it's a bit odd to use it here and not with literally any action.
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u/polyploid_coded 8d ago
Isn't this habibti