Let's Have a Fight Over What is the Correct Branch of Christianity


As an outsider, it is really hard to understand the fights within Christianity. I suppose the fights within Christianity are similar to the fights within Islam and Hinduism except guns are used in the latter religions.

Giving me a chuckle was a story about which is the correct "truth" about the ever after. Here are the choices. (1.) Hell is a place where people burn forever. (2.) There is no hell, people who don't qualify for heaven are annihilated.

I'm wondering why this distinction is important? Is it because annihilation lets sinners off the hook without adequate punishment? That is, it might not be adequate punishment to be deprived of heaven and necessary to burn for eternity.

More helpful might be to consider what we actually know. So far as we know, both sinners and the sinless are annihilated forever. No one has ever provided evidence there is either a heaven nor a hell. When we die we return to the same state we were in before we were born. We did not exist then nor do we exist in any form after we die.

These arguments about hell versus annihilation are as pointless as nearly all the other arguments that go on within the faith. There is baptism by adult immersion versus sprinkling is bit of water on the heads of babies. The number of both babies and adults going through this ceremony is falling--neither has any importance outside the faith.

I'm sure there are disputes about the communion ritual. It's safe to assume whatever the differences they are not important either.

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  1. tsmDecember 23, 2018 at 6:40 PM

    I'm certainly reassured to know that some people have it all figured out, that any views/disputes outside their ken are simply unimportant/irrelevant. are disputes within the philosophy or economics realm then equally unimportant?

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