Quote Originally Posted by Inverting_world_lines View Post

"why would a loving God let me go to hell?"

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There is a well known quote from the famous comedian Groucho Marx: "I would not want to belong to any Country Club that would take me as a member".

There is a Hell simply because Heaven would need to set some very high standards, both morally and aesthetically, or it would no longer qualify as being a heaven.

In this sense, Hell is not a deliberate and designed place, intended for punishment. hell is simply exile from heaven. The only thing that makes Hell an evil and bad place to be is the peole, the souls that occupy it. All the bad bosses, all the rapers, all the thieves, and slave drivers, and all the Republicans. All at constant war with each other, maneuvering for advantage, trying enslave one another, some grabbing all the wealth and imposing minimum wages on the others. God does none of that. It is the inmates that make Hell crazy.

Indeed, this is where Satan -- Lucifer enters in. As First and Most Powerful of Hell, but still a Soul just like any other Soul, Satan needs to be careful with every new 'member' that joins the Club. In order for Satan to continue to Rule in Hell, he must jump with both feet on anyone who could ever challenge his power. So it is that we hear of souls being bound and chained in Hell, or restricted and tormented.

This is appropriate for Republicans, Capitalists, Economists and Conservatives who believe in the positive value of competition. When they are banned from heaven and must join the excluded ranks in Hell, then they can see the ultimate end of the Competion they had always advocated. And Lucifer wins and they all lose. Only one soul can be King of the Mountain, if that is the game they had wanted to play all of their lives.

But we don't have to feel sorry for anyone. Lucifer does nothing to any Soul that those same souls had not done to others... indeed, done to US.