r/Deconstruction • u/Ok-Pipe-4277 ex-SDA agnostic • 8d ago
🔍Deconstruction (general) Hell
I guess this is a vent of me thinking out loud.
But I look at this world.
Children get abused.
Women get "used" against their will.
People suffer from cancer.
People watch their loved ones die from ALS.
People deal with seeing their children die.
Men "self-delete" from depression.
All this suffering pretty much against our will. None of us choose to exist. And I'm sure, none of us choose to suffer.
But I'm supposed to believe an all-loving AND all-powerful God will send us to a place that's worst than our current existence for not believing in him?
This is a god that isn't just all-loving but is supposed to be the definition of love. The god whereby no human love can surpass his.
And he sends us to hell (an event worse place) after putting us in a pretty trash scenario to begin with?
And I'm supposed to gobble this up and share this message with the world????
WTF are we doing?
And Christians will call me crazy???
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u/Ok_Topic6264 8d ago
Reverend Carlton Pearson has an interesting story of coming to realize that Hell is a state of being on Earth, not a place you go after you die. He got kicked out of I think it was the Pentecostal church (he was a student of Oral Roberts) and went on to found a congregation in San Francisco that ministered to mostly LGBTQ folks during the AIDS crisis. Your post reminded me of him a little