Visions Of Hell (1)

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Visions of Hell (Part 1) - ACA Lecture Series With Matt Dillahunty.

Matt Dillahunty is president of the ACA and host of The Atheist Experience TV show. He has previously lectured on the history of the Biblical canon.

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Most religions address the afterlife, including some cosmic system of rewards and punishment. Many of these afterlife claims include some place of torture, torment or purging that we might tend to generalize as "hell".

In this lecture, we'll take a tour through a number of different concepts of hell by inspecting the art and literature that have helped spread this ubiquitous meme - even among the secular. While some modern theologians have abandoned claims of a literal hell, others continue to promote views that include lakes of fire and laughing saints. If Christianity and other religions were to die off tomorrow, would the concept of hell slip away as well?

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7SnfX1_ZQM&fmt=18
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy57ff-sJT4&fmt=18
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSNGo_r6PkM&fmt=18
Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfxlDeVYu_E&fmt=18
Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDc8vjqYYA8&fmt=18
Part 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtBh1w73JwU&fmt=18

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[thelordmemnoch]

@345thisisfrustrating See how brainwashed you are? If I told a chick to show me her tits else I "hit her across the face with a bat," does she "choose" to get hit by not showing them to me? No. And it's this type of nonsense I have to deal with when I speak to you guys. If you don't love god he tortures you forever. Period. That is a tyrant. Good thing he doesn't exist or we would be fried. Thank goodness for the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

[345thisisfrustrating]

@thelordmemnoch He does not say that , God can create what He wants He is God , He created man and because God is pure love He gave a free will , good or evil and God has shown us the way with the bible and if we do not choose it we go to hell we send ourselves He does not . If He was evil and said love me or burn , we would be robots and or He would not have given us the bible for guidance and or He would not have become human form to save us the God of everything died for our smelly butts

[345thisisfrustrating]

@hymnofashes He was first and foremost God almighty and in order to relate to us He put Himself in a human form but He is not human , He is spirit first as are we .

[thelordmemnoch]

@jmoonsuede you're*

[jmoonsuede]

@thelordmemnoch Godbless you and your in my prayers :)

[thelordmemnoch]

@jmoonsuede Fine by me, waste your time in private on my behalf, I don't care. I would prefer you be female if you were going to think of me in private, with your eyes closed and on your knees, but whatever floats your boat. And from me to you, may your prayers be answered as swiftly and as forceful as usual, which would be the same as if you didn't pray in the first place. Some people don't make the connection. Others like me do.

[jmoonsuede]

@thelordmemnoch Wow I guess people are so brainwashed by media images and books written by flawed man that they have to act so vile and disgusting like you do to someone because he gives a blessing? This is astonishing to me! THIS IS WHY PEOPLE LIKE YOU ARE NEVER HAPPY GOT IT?! I hope you will be one day though and I will pray for you too because you CLEARLY need peace in your bitter heart. Godbless you too! :)

[thelordmemnoch]

@jmoonsuede No, I am intolerant of masochistic people, such as yourself, who finds comfort in being forced to love something or someone that you might not love. It is called abuse to the rest of us, sir. And as usual, you are so deluded that you call me intolerant, yet you can't accept someone's rejection of faith without accusing him/er of "straying and needs to be reminded that God love him and..." That is YOUR way of saying, "I don't care what he believes, he needs to believe me!" Idiot.

[jmoonsuede]

@thelordmemnoch I don't have the power to bless him so thats why I said "Godbless you" because clearly he needs to know and feel Gods blessing since he has strayed far away from him and needs to reminded that God loves him and always will. If anyone is being abusive its people like you who are intolerant to people if faith!

[thelordmemnoch]

@jmoonsuede Why would he need it? Why would anyone want to be a slave to a tyrant? "Love me or I'll torture you." That doesn't sound like love, it sounds like a prick of an abusive husband. I hope you don't have daughters and teach them to love something sick like that.