• MutilationWave@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    6
    ·
    20 days ago

    King James version has lines like “your soul shall surely perish” which doesn’t sound like eternal damnation to me. It does say Lucifer was cast into the lake of fire, but to my knowledge doesn’t suggest this is a place human souls would end up.

    Honestly I believe that hell was mostly an invention of religious leaders to gain more worshippers, and therefore more power. I don’t believe in any of it though.

      • MutilationWave@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        8
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        20 days ago

        All of it is fan fiction. Even the Christians who know anything about history admit that most of the books of the bible were written circa 300CE. Jesus likely never existed, and if he did he was one among many self-styled prophets wandering the holy land.

    • bassomitron@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      edit-2
      20 days ago

      Agreed. And I’m not religious, either. I’m not rigidly atheist, but I am highly skeptical of some omniscient, omnipotent being playing some divine version of RimWorld.

      Damnit, now I feel like playing some RimWorld…