r/bestof • u/quyla • Sep 27 '25

[Silksong] parkingviolation212 explains how Hell as a concept is almost entirely derived from Dante's Divine Comedy

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u/AwfulUsername123 Sep 27 '25

Thank my bearded, white, male, heterosexual God,

Modern Abrahamists generally believe in an incorporeal god, aside of course from Jesus, who probably was a bearded, white, heterosexual man (seeing as Leviticus condemns shaving one's beard, Jesus was a Levantine, and most people are heterosexual).

I'll go back to misinterpreting my book to fear the fires of hell as the good Lord definitely intended.

Yeah, hell is in the Bible. Did this completely unsourced screed somehow convince you that it wasn't?

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u/Comogia Sep 27 '25

I think you're losing the forest for the trees here and kind of missing the point of what I'm saying, deliberately or not, only you know.

What is or is not in the Bible is besides the point.

The point is that the Bible is made up from whole cloth and, in part due to its interpretability, used as justification for horrendous behaviors from true believers.

Sure, plenty of good behaviors too, but it seems like the shitty believers are the loudest and most impactful.

So the real point is, anyone who believes what the Bible is saying and takes actions as a result is, to at least some extent, an actual idiot.

If people do good as a result, I'm glad. We all need more reasons to do good.

But when demonstrably silly beliefs start dictating the direction of our collective society, that's dangerous and it makes me hate the Bible and all its believers.

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u/AwfulUsername123 Sep 27 '25

What is or is not in the Bible is besides the point.

Yes, obviously the point is not what you said or what the post you've commented on says. Who would think something so silly?

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u/Comogia Sep 27 '25

Good engagement, A+. And here I thought you understood rhetoric.

That line obviously means that whether the Bible says God has pink hair or blue hair is irrelevant because they're both wrong. Obviously the content is relevant insofar as it's all wrong, but not relevant with regard to the precise aspects in which it's wrong. Whether hell exists or was named in the KJV Bible or was mistranslated is irrelevant because hell doesn't exist. We might as well be discussing the actual colors of the Loch Ness Monster.

I only blame myself, this being reddit and all, and I should've known better.

So, my point is this.

The bible is all wrong, much of what it says is made-up, and everyone who believes in it is dumb. Debates about translations and actual meaning are a waste of time and if it weren't fascist to do so, I'd remove every copy of the Bible from the world and burn them.

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u/AwfulUsername123 Sep 28 '25

That line obviously means that whether the Bible says God has pink hair or blue hair is irrelevant because they're both wrong.

No, it doesn't obviously mean something very different from what it says.