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this is a really good question. as i´ve grown to an age where i am mature enough to question what i´ve been taught and come up with/grasp new concepts, i´ve done a lot of thinking about stuff like this. religion, what happens after death, etc. i am a pretty devout christian, but i feel that there has to be a bigger picture. first of all, evolution happened. but my main struggle to figure out is the belief that many christians have that the only way to heaven is through christ. i can`t see a loving god sending a native brazilian tribesman to hell when he has never even heard of jesus. or sending an old hindu man to hell after he lived a life of kindness and love. all in all i think that the concepts of god and the afterlife, in the grand scheme of everything, are far too complex to be grasped or articulated by human minds. i´ll stick to my catholic/christian beliefs, but i also try to have an open mind and realize that i´m a speck of dust in the grand scheme of things, and for me to try to understand the most complex idea in the history of man is quite pointless.
for my high school diploma i had to write a paper (i wrote 76 pages instead of 20) about a self-chosen topic. well i wanted to write my own philosophy down, so i called the topic "the sense of life. just some random facts out of it:
1) the bible is a book consisting of other books. the first christian council in nicae decided which books are "divine" and which arent.
2) the way prophets describe their initiation in the old testament sounds like modern day people would describe an UFO. ancient indian mythology talks also about stuff that sounds to us like spaceships, astronauts, etc... (same with hopis, egypts, ...)
3) the bible has tons of parallels to other ancient texts, most of which are older than the bible. so a lot of stuff was simply copied in order to make everyone believe in their god. same was in rome, when the romans occupied another tribe or country, they would include their gods into roman mythology (diana, dionysos,...). in the miracle where jesus increased the amount of fish and bread, the numbers are equal to those of a similar miracle by buddha. one of buddhas followers also was asked to walk on water and wasnt able to just like peter.
4) vatican made up some documents, which said that emperor konstantin had give them whole italy as a gift. when it was discovered as fake, they still acted like everything was true, although byzanz was called byzanz instead of konstantinopel.
they killed thousands of people for not converting all over the world in colonialisation. the vatican took those people their beliefs and culture and is now even saying that all south-american tribes were waiting desperately to be redeemed by the europeans. needless to say, that in reality, the spanish and portugese enslaved, raped and killed the indians instead.
5) religion is needed to control people and beware them, maybe even from themselves. but this was back then 2000 years ago. now we have REAL LAWS, that are enforced immediately by police and other governmental institutions.
so, idk, i just wrote that
but do we know if he got into heaven?
once you die, get a head count in heaven, come back to life, get on NS, and post your fidings in this thread, im gonna say that serial killers arent exactly "heaven material"
so youre not denying that it is possible to live that way. hitler, right before he kills himself, does the rosary a few times, then shoots himself.
i cannot wait to see if he is in heaven, because nobody was around to witness hitler's death except himself.
this is a flawed system if you can kill millions of people, than say i love you jesus h. christ a few times and you know what? maybe those millions of jews, maybe we can forget about that
you think gay marriage is wrong??????????!!!!!!
i would have never guessed, seeing that you think evolution is a lie, and hitler's sins could potentially be forgiven
you think there is a hope for hitler?
oh btw, where can i buy nazi armbands, ive always wanted one