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Originally Posted by catzmeow
let me tell you a story to illustrate my beliefs.
Say that you had a son. And that son in some way fell short of your expectations. Maybe he got a DUI, or failed a class in school, or maybe he just one day told you to go to hell.
Because of your son's failures, you decided that you would enact a penalty. You would douse him in gasoline and set him on fire. And that fire wouldn't burn for a few minutes, it would burn for an eternity.
What do you think any humane society on earth would do with you for that behavior?
And why do you hold your god to a lesser standard than you hold yourself?
As a parent, is there ANY WAY that you could sentence your child to an eternity of burning torture? What act could possibly be bad enough to warrant that consequence?
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A man and his son is nothing like the relationship between God and man; Both human father and human son are humans, God is not. It is more like a man creating a race of intelligent ants, and then setting forth laws for their own good, and coming to the unhappy conclusion that many of those ants wont obey the law without some sort of penalty, which he must then also set forth.