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Originally Posted by pamplemoose77
i really shouldn't have even started reading this thread... i'm pretty sure i've stated my beliefs on about 4 other threads with different flavors but the same ending.
but... i would like to just say, once again, that the broadsweeping "they" of christians that you are referring to in this post is an overwhelmingly large categorization of a group of billions of people. how can you possibly speak for or know what all of "them" are thinking and feeling? how could *I*, as one of "them," even speak for billions of people?
to me, this is like saying "all the chinese" or "all the black people" or "all the white people"... how could one person ever speak for all of any group?
i for one, do NOT hope you will burn in hell.
if you choose not to believe, that is your choice.
i sincerely wish, however, that you would choose to believe that not all christians are rooting for your eternal damnation. i wouldn't wish that on anyone... rather they believe in a hell or not. it's not my place to judge!
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I don't think a single christian would ever root for someone to burn in hell. That would be very...unchristian but I do see that the dogma of the religion prescribes nonbelivers, and others known as heretics and heathens, eternal damnation. That is why so many men and woman testify and do mission work. It is out of love and a wish to save the poor non believers and those who have not heard the holy words of the religion.
I try to not take issue or lump one group in with them all because there are vast differences between sects but there are links and truths inherent to the religion of Christianity as a whole and those can be grouped.