What the hell?

[Dirigoproductions]

The most terrifying teaching of the three modern religions would be that of hell, an everlasting hell. A place full of fire, torment, punishment and everlasting pain. As George Carlin would put it, "but he loves you!"

Christian Evangelicals are hell bent (pardon the pun) on scaring the shit out of their children and society in the hopes of whipping them into shape. There is no doubt that an unguided child would be scared beyond wits end, until he or she found out the truth for themselves, hopefully.

Since Christians shout at us atheists all the time, "you'll burn in Hell", rest assured that even there sacred book itself tells us we will not burn in hell upon our death. How can this be so? Outside of the point that the original Greek terms for Hell were never placed nor found in the original Septuagint, nor did this word ever exist. The words that were transliterated were Gehenna and Hades. Gehenna referred to an actual garbage dump of Jerusalem and Hades is a simple Greek term meaning, "a place in the afterlife", neither specifying a heaven or hell with this term.

We can turn to several places in the bible for this reference. First, in the book of Ecclesiastes, Chapter 9, verses 5 and 6, it reads as follows:

For the living know that they will die, but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also, their love and their hatred and their envy, is now perished, neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.

In the book of Isaiah, Chapter 26, Verse 16 reads:

They are dead, they shall not live; [they are] deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.

In the book of Psalms, Chapter 143, verse 3 reads:

For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.

In the book of Jericho, Chapter 22, Verse 10 reads:

Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: [but] weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.

The above are just some examples of many. Christians will undoubtedly answer back with a verse that does in fact say hell, rest assured that the original lexicon has been corrupted, just as their doctrine. The bible never says will we burn in hell, it merely says when we die we loose all thoughts and exist in nothingness. Even the verse in Isaiah goes as far to say that we will never rise again? Not even to Heaven? Christians will be most heartbroken, first they need to read the book that they hold onto, instead of citing things they know nothing about.

For a more in depth analysis on this topic, please watch the attached video I made....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFdSaK1AIso






Respectfully yours,

Dirigoproductions

 

[DarwinsOtherTheory]

Good video

 

[WolfAU]

One of my main interests about religion is understanding the non-theistic reasons for why religion is the way it is...

If there is no God and the bible is written by men... why create hell?

Probably fairly intuitive, threatening people with an eternal punishment for not doing what the religious leaders tell them is very effective, it also throws things like Pascal's wager into the mix (if in doubt, believe), but also things like the specifics of hell are somewhat interesting (ie firey... which to me is likely taken from the idea of the Erebus, the greek Underworld).

 

[Dirigoproductions]

ie firey... which to me is likely taken from the idea of the Erebus, the greek Underworld).

It seems like it was borrowed or shared from Erebus, however, even the Greek underworld is borrowed from ancient Egypt, just as with Christianity. Egypt was the first civilization that introduced a fiery aspect of hell based upon sin. That sin was judged based on whether a persons sin weighed more than the weight of a feather. Greek, Babylon, Sumerian and even ancient Mesopotamia civilizations all borrowed from Egypt's hell called Duat.