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Originally Posted by Prayer Warrior
For supposedly being so logical, these atheists do not seem to understand math very well. Hell is an unending eternity of suffering and torture. Any form of pain on Earth what so ever to avoid going to Hell is therefore justified, no matter how terrible and no matter how lengthy.
If you have to be tortured for 50 years, and it results in even a 1% chance of avoiding Hell's eternal fires, that is well worth it. It is like paying 50 cents for a 1% chance of winning a trillion dollars (actually more than this, but I've just used arbitrarily small and large math figures to not hurt the heads of so called logical atheists.)
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Brother, these are the wisest words in this entire conversation. Who in their right minds could argue with such simple, straight-forward logic like this? The way in which you explain this is reminiscent of how I explain to my children the necessity of pulling out a splinter even when it hurts. Would they really rather leave a splinter in, letting it infect the skin, turn the limb gangrenous, just to avoid the relatively tiny discomfort of plucking it out? Avoiding Hell is the same thing, only on a much bigger scale.
Such a shame that people would hold on to that splinter of sin. I'm so glad you could explain this in terms even a simple-minded atheist can [hopefully] comprehend.