ByteOnBikes@discuss.online to Atheist Memes@lemmy.world · 1 month agoToxic empathy...?discuss.onlineimagemessage-square175linkfedilinkarrow-up11.38Karrow-down118
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minus-squareDr. Bluefall@toast.ooolinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·1 month agoThere are acts which deserve severe punishment. Perhaps multiple lifetimes of the most severe punishment one can imagine. But there is no such act that, in this finite world, by finite humans, merits infinite punishment.
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 month agoWhich is why traditional understandings of Hell are just distance from God in the eternal group hug.
minus-squaremichaelmrose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 month agoLarry niven and Jerry pournelle did a riff on Dante’s inferno where a science fiction writter wakes up in hell with this theme. Do recommend.
There are acts which deserve severe punishment. Perhaps multiple lifetimes of the most severe punishment one can imagine.
But there is no such act that, in this finite world, by finite humans, merits infinite punishment.
Which is why traditional understandings of Hell are just distance from God in the eternal group hug.
Larry niven and Jerry pournelle did a riff on Dante’s inferno where a science fiction writter wakes up in hell with this theme. Do recommend.