re if there were no hell in may athos rutgers edu shellgate llo uu psi com writes here s a question that some friends and i were debating last night q if you knew beyond all doubt that hell did not exist and that unbelievers simply remained dead would you remain a christian reasoning pertinent to believing xians deleted for space it strikes me for no apparent reason that this is reversible i e if i had proof that there existed a hell in which i would be eternally punished for not believing in life would that make me a xian pardon my language bloody hell no of course being merely a reversal of your thinking this doesn t add anything new to the debate but several friends disagreed arguing the fear of hell was necessary to motivate people to christianity to me that fatally undercuts the message that god is love a point very well taken imnsho successful terrorism is called revolution and is admired by history unsuccessful terrorism is just lowly cowardly terrorism phil trodwell on alt atheism
