NEED TO KNOW | What if there's no hell? One pastor's controversial question | PBS

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/culture/jon-meacham-what-if-there%e2%80%... Jon Meacham comments on one evangelical minister's controversial book, and on the importance of doubt. Need to Know airs Fridays on PBS. Watch full-length episodes of Need to Know at http://video.pbs.org/program/1458405365/

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[LiveToThink]

if you can't behave yourself without the threat of hell, you're a bad person

[DerrenBrown100]

Religion is bullshit. There is no god.

[ianpennack]

Why must I suffer eternal hell. Is'nt it enough that god takes all his sucker's, i mean believers off to this everlasting heaven. I mean, what's the point in everlasting torcher. I will eventually get used to it and it won't mean a thing. God seems to favor misimformation, so if i were a believer i would think twice before i entertained going to this place called heaven. It might turn out to be something else, entirely unexpected.

[CambridgeHeights]

@maurieer What do you mean the 'unknown'. We know what happens when you die. Nothing. The brain rots, that's the end of life for that person.

[BlackRepublican2010]

Matthew 23:33 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?"

Most Bible historians agree & anyone who has read the New Testament that Jesus spoke more about Hell than Heaven. It is disgusting that there's people out there that actually believe, just like the entitlement society, that there are no consequences to their own actions, that they are even entitled to heaven!

[micheal74rich]

@PBS 3of3) God do not encourage people to commit evil, therefore Jesus' death in most humiliated way was work of bad Jewish people, could not have come from God, and attributing it unto God as if that God wants Jesus be killed for sins of humanity was even greater evil.

Further saying that God have a son is an accusation against God; it is like attributing human-like and animal-like properties (i.e. having sons and daughters) unto God is unforgiving sin. Christians do not realize this.

[micheal74rich]

@PBS 2of3) The way Jesus died, inhumane, brutal, barbaric and humiliating & these evil acts could not have come from God. Because God do not commit evil, therefore Christianity never could have come from God, nor does God's mercy is subjected to any substance on earth, including blood or killing because God is independent from everything that exists on Earth and heaven. Christianity could not have come from God, so Christians are doom to hell fire.

[micheal74rich]

@PBS 1of3) Even in God less religion such as Buddhism people do agree that Buddha DO NOT encourage people to commit evil, yet alone God of monotheistic religion, the God of Abraham, Moses, and Jesus would not have encouraged Jewish people to kill Jesus in most barbaric way for sin of humanity, because the God is The Most Merciful and He forgives whom He wills, therefore barbaric killing of Jesus could not have come from God, simply because God do not encourage people to commit evil.

[maurieer]

As an agnostic, I simply don't know.

As to a personal god who watches, listens to every action and thought until one dies just to judge whether one will be sent to it's heaven or it's hell, is due to man's vast imagination.

This is because of the fear of the unknown when one dies.

The churches and their religions takes advantage of this to control and not loose it's sheep.

[OldDood]

People can believe whatever they want as long as they do not try to tell me what to believe.

It is my firm conviction now that there is no 'Hell'.

In other words there is no judgement or guilt unless WE bring it with us when we die.

None of us truly 'DIES'. Just our 3D body for the 'moment'.

Because it will feel like a moment since we all reincarnate over and over again until we reach a point where we do not have to reincarnate anymore.

That is what I believe. you can believe what you want.

[evileyez504]

if there is no hell than their wouldnt be much belief of christianity... just like if their was no jail then there would be more crime

[goog2k]

Sorry, most religions are just silly superstitious "Fairy Tales" to relieve our human fear of DEATH?

Yes, religious fairy tales have effects, because superstitious humans believe in them. Many Muslim martyrs who commit suicide attacks believe the fairy tale they're going straight to Muslim heaven and get "72 virgins." Duhh

But how much more silly is that than Judeo/Christian fairy tales of heaven& hell, or Hindu/Buddhist fairy tales of reincarnation?