Hell is a terrorist concept (atheist, quote, punished, pray)
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Terrorist is too strong of a word. At worst, they are trying to strike fear into your heart to persuade you. At best, this is the best they can do to show they really believe what they say.
Terrorist is too strong of a word. At worst, they are trying to strike fear into your heart to persuade you. At best, this is the best they can do to show they really believe what they say.
Yeah, simply ask them to prove it with something other than scripture. They might point to negative NDE's.
To an atheist Hell is an empty threat. It might be disrespectful, silly or rude but in no way should it be considered a terrorist act or threat.
No, that is not accurate imo. The 'Atheist' has no way of knowing 100% what happens after death neither do those who threaten an eternity in hell...
being judged and punished severely in the afterlife, is purely a human creation...you have to look at how the world was when Christianity began, (the entire globe as a whole)...it may not be popular to say, but 'Human beings need to be controlled'...they need to fear being judged for doing 'wrong'. Its the only way we can have a thriving world and not be immersed in brutality and violence.
If a believer threatens an atheist with 'Hell' is that a terrorist act?
Only if the atheist believes in Hell. But then if he does he also should believe in God in which case he cannot be an atheist. This is the atheist conundrum that can never be resolved which could be a self-created emotional hell from which there is no nirvana.
If a believer threatens an atheist with 'Hell' is that a terrorist act?
That seems like rather an overwrought claim.
It is rude and impertinent and lame but IMO not terroristic.
I suppose you could say that terrorism's objective is to terrorize others using (usually physical) violence or credible threat of same, but I don't see hellthreat as violence. In theory it could rise to that level in someone who isn't able to see threats of damnation as the empty nothing-burger that it actually is, I suppose. Perhaps people with a background in authoritarian religion who are trying to shed it and have been conditioned to the learned helplessness and control of the system.
But if you're trying to categorize people who believe in hell as terrorists, I don't think that's a fair characterization (for the vast majority of them anyway).
I believe, from what I have gathered from the athiests collective wisdom in these parts, offering a prayer for them is the ultimate threat. Something a terrorist should keep in his tool kit.
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