[In response to: "All you need to do now is quote that hoax about miners digging a hole into hell and your windowlicker status will be confirmed."]
"The only miners who have dug into hell recently were the few who went down into the Sago mine unrepentant. Even though they died in the mine, it was their sins that dug them into hell, not their shovels."
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Hi, no. Sago was a couple of years ago. You're referring to Crandall Canyon. Which, btw, was largely a factor of greed-motivated shoddiness, presumably from a boss who no doubt considered himself God-fearing.
Monster.
Cold, insensitive, ghoul of a monster.
Those people that died had families. Mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters...and to say that they deserved to die, that their families deserve to suffer...I pray you never have to deal with the pain these people are dealing with right now. I truly, truly do.
How come when a Fundie says that such-and-such people who died tragically "Are in hell" because they weren't Christian, everybody gets in a big uproar about how insensitive the Fundie is and how he should die in a fire.
Yet when a Fundie says that such-and-such people who died tragically are in Heaven, because they WERE Christian, nobody screams with the same outrage?
@tracer:
Because hell is supposed to be a place of eternal suffering (although logically the biological point of suffering is continued existence; also, it would imply immortality and eternal youth), wanting someone to go to, or be in, hell (which is commonly associated with saying that they are going to, or are in, hell) is tantamount to wanting them tortured for eternity. This is not to say that such a statement is always hateful, but it usually implies either approval of their damnation or cowardice in worshipping a deity who would damn them, and the only time I have seen someone talk about damnation in a way I find consistent with the idea that torture is evil (torturers, mortal or immortal, are hostis humani generis, the enemies of all humanity) was in a book by Samuel Clemens.
On the other hand, heaven is supposed to be a good place, although exactly how is always somewhat vague (if you had asked them, I doubt that Adolf Hitler and Martin King would have had compatible, let alone identical, visions of heaven), and wanting someone to go to or be in heaven comes across as an empty platitude (another is "and we wish her/hir/him/hym/them well", which FOX News reportedly includes whenever they report a retirement from politics, including Cindy Sheehan); while it is probably more serious to believers, few take it to its logical conclusion (I read about a medieval monk who, told that a colleague of his was terminally ill and would soon be in heaven, congratulated him and wished that he himself was also dying).
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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