Atheism VS Lake Of Freaking Fire

[SacredBishop]

As Christopher Hitchens said, " whatever reasons you use to reject every other God, simply apply those same reasons to the God of the Bible " Well if I did that I'd be an atheist, but the Lake of Fire is no beuno. I'd rather go to heaven confused, then go to hell unconfused. Is eternal damnation a good reason not to be an atheist? I'm scared of Lake of Fire, and don't want to go there. Atheism has no Lake of Fire.

[brunumb]

I don't near fear a lake of fire as I do far right Christians voting.

With the one there's no proof it's there, with the other'n, they've captured the Supreme Court.

It's a bit scary that hundreds of millions of people can be held to ransom by a mere handful of fallible human beings complete with their personal biases and agendas.

[PolytheistWitch]

Being a Christian because you're afraid of hell makes no sense to me. The point of being a Christian is you believe Christ died for your sins therefore hell is off the table. If you're a Christian and still afraid of going to hell I have to wonder if you're really a theist. And if it really comes down to picking the god you worship based on the afterlife why not pick one from a different religion where there is no hell. Or at least not a hell where there is violent torture. I just don't understand the whole fire insurance belief thing.

[SacredBishop]

Some people are scared of going to hell and want to be saved from actually going there. I don't believe in hell, but if I did, if I truly did, I would believe in whatever it took to save me. Some atheists have a residual fear of hell from their upbringing in a religious home.

[JoeyKnothead]

Being a Christian because you're afraid of hell makes no sense to me. The point of being a Christian is you believe Christ died for your sins therefore hell is off the table. If you're a Christian and still afraid of going to hell I have to wonder if you're really a theist. And if it really comes down to picking the god you worship based on the afterlife why not pick one from a different religion where there is no hell. Or at least not a hell where there is violent torture. I just don't understand the whole fire insurance belief thing.

Or they're afraid of Hell because so many there might recognize em?