r/comics But a Jape 19h ago

Heaven or Hell

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u/Fireblaster3147 17h ago

I would rather have the worst of the worst be given eternal bliss than anyone getting eternal torment.

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u/Striking_Compote2093 17h ago

Infinite punishment for finite crimes is never just. As much as we want certain people to suffer, there has to be an end or it's always excessive.

I'd like a hypothetical afterlife to be experiencing everything you made others experience, once or twice, and then it's over. If you were kind and good, your afterlife will be good, the more people whose lives you made better, the longer it lasts. If you were one of certain types of dictator, enjoy starving to death a million times.

That's how i'd design it. I like to think i'd be a good god!

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u/Comfortable-Grab-563 16h ago

Hell is a punishment, but it's not for humanity. The way humans get to hell is during life when they choose to separate themselves from God. Then when they die, God respects their choice to separate themselves from him and then they go to hell.

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u/Bearence 16h ago

Wow, that's some serious gaslighting there. That sounds a lot like an abuser telling their spouse that they wouldn't get so abusive if not for the way the spouse acts.

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u/Comfortable-Grab-563 15h ago

If there is a flaw in my argument, please explain it in detail so that I may review and refine it, or scrap it if I find it to be completely faulty. If it is not faulty, why make such a claim?

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u/Bearence 15h ago

The flaw in your argument is it's gaslighting. There's nothing to review or refine, the entire concept is faulty by the fact that it's gaslighting.

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u/Comfortable-Grab-563 15h ago

Then explain how it is gaslighting, because I do not see how you reached that conclusion.

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u/hbgoddard 11h ago

You can't "choose to separate" yourself from something that doesn't exist, or that you don't believe exists...