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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

A Short Stay In Hell

Short novella based on this exact premise. If you have never encountered it before, I urge you to give it a read. It's excellent. Also very disturbing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

You were expecting the storm god of the Sinai desert, maybe?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

Total obliteration seems more merciful than the eternal torment promised by Christianity.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

This is why Benny is my role model on religion.

https://youtu.be/4pZD1Ce8Mcs?L_SzU7TROb82u3wb

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

So who do non-believers like me meet?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

In this scenario, some random ass folk deity. In all likelihood, nothing. Because there would no longer be a "you" and there was never "a thing to meet."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Bad people instead suffer eternal tinnitus I guess.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Honestly, given the available evidence, this is just as likely an outcome as any other.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

this is the source of a lot of my existential dread. I can't logically refute it, at most I can acknowledge it's pointless for me to worry about, but I can't stop myself from worrying about maltheism.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

Any supposed supreme deity who hinges the eternal fate of their own supposed creations on a wild ass guess isn't one that is worthy of worship, adoration, or even basic respect. If a being with the sum total knowledge and foresight of literally everything can't devise a better system that any random ass person off the street, I wouldn't worry about it.

They either don't exist at all, or they do and everyone is fucked because we exist in the playground of omnipotent super beings that are somehow also absurdly stupid. One of those outcomes is more likely than the other. I think you know which one it is.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That's one of the reasons I like 40k. "God is real and he hates us" is a central theme. Sure it's edgelord material but its also a fun thought experiment. For me. I can see why it would upset you though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

check out the demiurge if you've never read about it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demiurge

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Oh yeah I read a bunch of Gnostic texts in my younger days. Interesting stuff.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Well, he gave his best shot. Next time he might try a more rigorous vetting system rather than just picking the most popular one in his home town.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

"I'm afraid it was the MORmons. Yes, the MORmons were the correct answer." --The Director of Hell (Southpark)

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago

That's the first place my mind went, as well.

What's hilarious is that in another episode, Satan asked God to accept Saddam Hussein into heaven so he could know true eternal torment living with the Mormons.

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