I would say I am a friendly atheist, not militant like some prefer to be. Yet, when asked about my religious preference I answer honestly. I am often told I am going to hell and many other bigoted things. Why do people with religion think that this behavior is okay? Am I the only one receiving this level of hatred? Why are we allowed to discriminate against atheists but not religions?
I could drive you there. It's in Michigan and really disappointing.
@Stevil I think it is pretty funny that people would name their settlement Hell.
My parents thought it was hilarious that my first boyfriend was “a boyfriend from Hell.”
The next year I brought home a typical “boyfriend from hell” and it didn’t seem so funny anymore ?
Actually, there is a crater on the Moon with the name of Hell. Soo... start walking.
@starwatcher-al Hell is in Michigan.
@BufftonBeotch until Hell freezes over......eternal arsonists should be like G Gordon Liddy forced to keep a finger over a candle until the skin is burning charcoal
But as one of my old friends from the Air Force once said, “When I die, I want to go to hell, because they won’t have Jack Daniels and rock and roll in heaven”
Maybe I have not been told that, probably because I live in Australia. Seems to me that in the US there are a lot of religious nutters, just like in Saudi Arabia.
The same with me here in Portugal. But even if someone told me that I would prefer. It would be warmer in hell than in even
Ha ha ha, it is kinda funny SA came to mind at the same time as the US! I want to come down there!
Can't say I've personally dealt with that. No one's said to my face I'm going to hell in a serious tone. Sure they think it, though. And why do they think it's okay to think that? Because the people who brainwashed them put it in their weak heads that it was.
@Dimples1114 I couldn't agree more. It's so unfair to a child. It pains me to see my nephew going through this right now.
Not for being atheist but when I went to church. Especially when I was young. We had a fire and brimstone preacher who revelled in the consequences of sin. Every Sunday. The entire congregation was going to hell.
@Stevil part of the reason I'm atheist. Lol
I have never been told I was going to hell.....had some that questioned "how I was going to get into heaven"....
I’d respond with,
“Are you going to be in heaven?”
To which they always answer smugly, “I’ve accepted jezoos as my lord and savior & look forward to eternity with him!”
“Then I’m definitely looking forward to going to hell...”
@OtherPatrick I have, over the years, mellowed about the "little" things in life.....normally just tell them if They get to heaven, I hope their happy with their lifes mission.
My Highway To Hell experience was at Uni in a seminar about Philosophy of Religion when I was told by another student that I was going to Hell because I had taken communion at a RC church and not been confirmed. I just replied that I wouldn’t because I don’t believe in its existence.
Now that is definitely sending you Down There. The RC s are funny like that. My mum and dad, in the 60s had to confess to going to a Quaker wedding, and were given a decade of the rosary to cleanse their now polluted souls.
@Tilia oh my god! To use a satirical term. That is abusive. Can’t imagine what horrors await that Pell bloke! I’ll have to break out my Dante’s Commedia to check it out. Certainly 5th circle of Hell is too good for him!. Although I guess he gets a works discount!
I was told I was going to burn in hell for my non belief. Does that count???? LOL
Yes, it counts. Here you are burning in hell for your non-belief and god says "I bet you believe now don't you?"
Haven't we all.
...at least once or twice.
I always loved this from "To Kill a Mockingbird":
“You know old Mr. Radley was a foot-washing
Baptist-”
“That’s what you are, ain’t it?”
“My shell’s not that hard, child. I’m just a Baptist.”
“Don’t you all believe in foot-washing?”
“We do. At home in the bathtub.”
“But we can’t have communion with you all-”
Apparently deciding that it was easier to define primitive baptistry than closed
communion, Miss Maudie said: “Foot-washers believe anything that’s pleasure is a sin.
Did you know some of ‘em came out of the woods one Saturday and passed by this
place and told me me and my flowers were going to hell?”
“Your flowers, too?”
“Yes ma’am. They’d burn right with me. They thought I spent too much time in God’s
outdoors and not enough time inside the house reading the Bible.”
Me too. Probably my favorite book of all time.
"I feel sorry for you," a Christian radiologist said yesterday when I countered his "God fills me with love" schtick by saying I'm an atheist.
"I'm not sorry," I replied. "I believe in rational thought, not magical thinking."
That shut him up.
Going to hell? My stepdad told me I was going to "split hell wide open" whatever that meant.
I just tell people I have already been banned from hell because the devil is afraid of me...
Or that I bought in while Real Estate prices were low and have a beautiful condo over looking the lake of fire....