Next time i will say cool are you giving the punishment and do you also like too receive them, i usually say that i do beileve in such places have hell or heaven but i do beileve some souls get trapped sometimes between worlds, im not organized religion friendly
Sometimes something inside of me take over and looking them straight up and I say... "You are the 4th person today telling me that. How do I know you are not lying? You know, you are lying to me. Whatever their response... And you lying again. There you go lying to me again. You are the 4th person today to tell me that lie. Why you are lying? Who is telling you to lie to me. Why you lie."
I'd tell them that I'm about as afraid of hell as they are of the bad part of the Greek underworld.
A simple blank stare followed by a disinterested "uh huh...". I mean for the more crazy ones I'll just chuckle, but in general I don't give them any real overblown reaction. Boogeyman threats don't work on me
I like to point out to them that if their god wants me to be saved from the bad place he made for me, he simply has to show me the exact right thing to make me a believer and follower. If this god made everything then it gave me too skeptical and intelligent a mind to believe in any unproven deity.
Geez, that depends very much how they threaten it and what mood I'm in at the time. I was told once I'd be going to hell but it was said with such a deep and quiet sense of sadness that I found myself with this sense of pity for the person who said it. I remember patting her on the arm and telling her I spent enough time in bible study to know better than that. She looked confused but I didn't stick around long enough for her to say any more to me.
If I don’t brow beat you with my pagan ways then back up and start over. Respect is key if I didn’t invite you into my space then you need to know your place ????
I roll my eyes - "thank you for your input"
If condemned, depending on the person doing it, I just chuckle and say I don't believe the way I used to. If they persist, I might say that "Not everyone believes like that." I usually don't bother to implicate myself, to avoid annoying arguments.
I say "looking forward to it" or usually when they tell me im going to hell "ive got a 1st class ticket, wanna come?" or my favorite, "well I guess I better make it worth it then"
also I point out any number of things that are equivalent in there gods eyes to my minor offence
I consider the very mention of a hell as a violent threat. You claim to believe in a god who's message is "I love you and don't want you to go to hell but if you don't believe in me and worship me you force me to send you there."
It is sick not to recognize that as doing harm.
I have a very strong aversion to the concept of hell even though I was lucky enough to had not been subjected to it as a kid, guess that's why I'm an atheist, this abuse was not used on me and it sickens me to see it still being used so blindly by those who did suffer it's threat.
Yah my father and grandpa and I where eating dinner- they where on the what if they made you take the mark of the beat- abd im like if I do that and I don't have a choice I go to hell- well if im aleady going to hell I rather commit suicide then at least it would be my choice- lol they didnt find that amusing haha