#i'm culturally catholic. we call Mom and our thousands of cousins with the special skillsets. Jesus is more just some (really cool) guy tbh

[mayra-quijotescx]

yeah, no, still angry, may well be angry forever, could rant for days on this general subject until my voice is hoarse and my carpals are tunneled, but let me just say this one thing, and it's a thing that I myself had to spend some time struggling with because it's just so convenient a thing to want to fall back on when someone pisses you off, it's so tempting and seductive like that, hmm, i wonder if that's one of those red flags we were warned about several times in the text... anyway:

If you are a Christian and you believe that Hell is still a genuine threat, you are committing a heresy.

Argue with the New Testament, not me. Yeah, sure, even the shitty post-1946 English translations that mistranslated arsenokoitai and malakos as 'homosexual', thus heavily contributing to mainstream Christianity's utter frothing derangement against queer people. What was the reason given for Jesus dying? Go. Look it up. I'll wait. What was he allegedly doing, in text, those three days before he came back?

Was it defeating Hell?

It was, wasn't it.

So if Jesus gave his life as the ultimate death penalty victim to vanquish Hell and free all souls... where the fuck is Hell? Shouldn't be anymore, am I right? Who's going against a literal self-sacrificial act of God to give this canonically vanquished institution all its horrible power back, then? Who's going around terrorizing little kids into thinking Jesus, the guy you're calling their Savior, as in 'one who saves you', who died in the worst way there was to die at the time to allegedly, per the main reference text of the religion, defeat Hell, actually either couldn't get it to stick because his sacrifice wasn't enough (?!), was secretly undermined by his own believers (?!) or pulled the shittiest uno-reverse ever and re-established eternal torment specifically for little boys and girls who didn't perfectly exemplify the roles their hateful pastors, politicians, and families started demanding from them at an inappropriately young age?!?