ght? The punishment is way out of proportion to the crime, and frankly sounds like it came from some very mean-spirited people, rather than any truly loving and merciful god.Religion is pretty much the ultimate ad-campaign, using the most extreme carrot-and-stick approach imaginable. Believe it and your reward will be Heaven (after you die): reject it and your soul will suffer eternal torment in Hell.Certain religions are quiet insistent that their religion is true one, and that others are nothing more that superstition or cults: and that all non believers of their faith are doomed to eternal torment in Hell. This seems to me to be worst form of tribalism, and the hate perpetrated against non-believers only serves to contradict the supposed message of love and mercy attributed to their deity. They claim moral superiority, yet are dangerously close to repeating the sins of Hitlers Nazism. Theres not much difference between Hell and the gas chamber, is there? ...
