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[serene]

Normal Bob gives voice to the main reason I don't believe in the heaven and hell I was taught as a child:

It doesn't take a scholar to see that the whole thing made up by people who wanted paradise and revenge. What if it's all true? It can't be. You know why? Because there is no paradise while my brother burns. And if there is one for you, then you need to have your head examined.

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[johnpalmer.livejournal.com]

Plus, there's that whole, "how can any loving, aware being expose any other being to eternal torment?" It just doesn't make any sense, without doing violence to the notion of love. You'd have to accept that they are forgotten by God, which means he never really loved them that much in the first place, to forget about them when they were in their greatest torment.

[smashingstars.livejournal.com]

Ah, Normal Bob Smith. He's one of my faves. I enjoyed the photo essay of him going in costume to "Passion of the Christ".