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What is your response when people threaten you with religious punishments? (i.e. Hell/Jahannam)

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I vacate the conversation. No response is necessary.

ledj Level 4 May 26, 2018
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Laughter. laughter solves a lot of my life problems

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If they're Christian I just ask if Jesus said that the sinless can cast stones, and if they are sinless I just turn up Meshugga.

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I just tell them that I am not interested in their teachings and to please leave me alone.

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By just approaching me by walking up or riding a bike.. they identify themselves as Mormon or Jehova’s witnesses or “ Bprn again”. Frankly I’m overly direct and to the point but with disrespecting their beliefs no matter how misguided they are. I often tell the I’m Semitic and Eurasian and fortunately impervious to their soliciting and pushing ones beliefs may be a sign of their own weakness or a reaction formation. By then I’m sure the view me as a heathen and leave asap

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Thank them and tell them I look forward to it!

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Most Christians haven't got even the slightest idea about the true foundations of their beliefs. Christianity is a mixed bag of pagan ritual and bits of and pieces of other theologies. It is, in fact, a borrowed religion. The old testament and the new testament of the bible don't have anything at all in common. They are loosely based on Jewish law and Gnostic concepts. Hell is one of those borrowed concepts. When I am threatened with the aspect of burning in a lake of fire if I don't "convert" I ask very politely how that works if I am cremated first. Hmmmmm.

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I take no note of it as religion is a fair tail. It is just something to scare you into doing things that someone wrote in a book that if you make a mistake or something you will burn in Hell. Why would some guy named Jesus that is supposed to be lovinhg threaten you with a place that is going to burn you.

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I ignore them, goes in one ear and out the other.

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Bring it!

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Laugh

jab60 Level 6 May 13, 2018
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I ask them if they believe I deserve it.
If they say yes, then I ask why. If they say no, then I ask why would I be punished then.
I like to put the morality of what they're saying onto them. Most of the time they'll avoid the question of deserve, by saying it's not up to them, or "you send yourself." Because either they believe I deserve it (which I've never gotten someone to say to my face) or their god is punishing me for bad reasons.
For Christians I like to then point out that I could be a good charitable person my whole life and not believe and go to hell, while someone could be a murdered, rapist, torturer, etc. and get saved right before they die... and what happens to them. The concept of hell just shows how immoral that thought process is, because it has nothing to do with deserve, just submission to a belief for fear of punishment.

Very good like that comment very logical

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I usually laugh because they are so earnest and funny and afraid for me na dstart to cry and all that silliness and it seems to always be all about them and their feelings no one ever knocks on my door to ask if I would like them to do something for me - They Just take - they take up my time - they take up my patience they take up my warm feelings for others and i wish they would go somewhere else and get a grip. Its totally all about their neediness.

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Would these punishments include beheading or are just thinking about the punishments in the afterlife?

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"Ok."

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I ask them where hell is. Why they think that is a good reason to believe in untrue ideas, because the Muslim he’ll seems worse to me...

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I tell them that I am not impressed by their threats. I state that I am no more afraid of Hell than I am afraid of being attacked by a werewolf or vampire when I walk around the lake.

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I blow them off. They're empty threats based on fairy tales and other bs.

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An involuntary giggle

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I once saw a bumper sticker that sums it up nicely for me....”it’s your hell, you burn in it.”

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My mother died when I was 11. A Christian woman told me (shortly after she died) that since my mother had not been "saved," she was going to burn eternally in hell. Yup, a Christian woman actually said that to an 11-year-old girl.

The Good News is that since my parents had raised me without religion and its accompanying fears, this revolting comment did not have the effect on me that this horrible woman might have intended. What did she intend? That I be saved and spare myself my mother's fate?

The comment didn't bother me at all when it happened. I just thought she was stupid. It bothered me later: what kind of person would say this to a child? What was in her mind?

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Laugh at them....or worse.

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Not counting keyboard warriors, I really don't know many religious people that are rude enough to openly threaten someone with Hell. When someone does talk about the fear of Hell I usually point out that avoiding Christain Hell means dooming yourself to Muslim Hell. After that they tend to admit that they aren't actually afraid of another religion's punishment and the conversation ends with a mutual admission that it's not worth living in fear of an unseen fire.

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How can I feel threaten with something I don't believe exist?

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I sure as fuck don't want to live in eternity with people like you and praising some really insecure fucking boogie man in the sky... I mean seriously... all powerful creator gets all bent out of shape if it's creation doesn't worship it... Yeah if the boogie man in the sky is real he/she/it is a fucking ass hole and I stand opposed reguardless of the consequences.

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