Me, an intellectual: We are already in hell.
No way!..
Submitted 2 weeks ago by TehBamski@lemmy.world to memes@sopuli.xyz
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fckreddit@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
I feel like Hell might just be slightly better.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
I’m currently making plans to colonize it.
~WorldsDumbestMan, ex-Dwarf Fortress player
blinfabian@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
wouldnt be too surprised if i died 300 years ago and im actually in hell rn
alcibiades@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
you kid but this is lowk a valid theological take that has been well written
ghost_rider69@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
Not really
D_C@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
“Wait. I’m going to your hell? …haha, checkmate, I don’t believe in your hell!!”
“Wow, me too! Let’s go and fuck some shit up!”lucullus@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
“Wow, me too! Let’s go and fuck
some shit up!, so that we are going to both hells!”
BillyClark@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I don’t know about Islamic texts, but the Bible doesn’t really say much about hell. If you want to learn about hell, you have to go to preachers. Fire and brimstone is their bread and butter. The more they talk about hell, the more money they make.
Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Even the “lake of fire” Jesus talks about is a reference to burn pits outside of town where they got rid of garbage. Almost as if taking everything in the bible literally is the wrong lense.
IronBird@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
the entire modern idea of “hell” pretty much just comes from dantes inferno, which is funny cause that was basically just fan fiction dante wrote so that he could pretend to interact with the girl next door he never got a chance to talk to
Alcan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And they are going to be very good friends in hell
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Perhaps even roommates
Chais@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
:m
Azrael@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
As a LaVeyan Satanist, and former Christian, I can tell you that the Christian bible doesn’t mention hell that much, and when it does it’s a metaphor. The idea of hell as a fiery undeworld with nine different levels comes from Dante’s Inferno. It’s the first part of a 14th century Italian poem called The Devine Comedy.
I cannot speak for Islam. I have no experience with that religion.
okmko@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I think it’s funny that so much of popular Christian imagery is from essentially fanfiction written by that guy.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Have you ever read this thing? Technically we’re not even allowed to go to the bathroom.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
What?
jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Neither of these bitches have actually read their own books
BanMe@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Of course not, they’d go to hell for knowing how to read
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Quran covers don’t look like that. Not even close.
s@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
It sure does suck that everybody who believes in an afterlife goes to Hell when they die. I personally don’t believe it to be the case, but that doesn’t change it from being the reality.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Religions of a feather flock together, they are just missing a Jew. Those wacky Abrahamic religions I’ll tell yah.
TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I have never been far enough from my own body to know if there is any truth to heaven and hell but i am willing to say that limbo is real because of my limite exposure to these spiritual things
dabster291@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
“Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms.”
ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
That kind of statement can only apply to ideas and attitudes that also respect diversity. Christianity and Islamism taken at face value are exclusionary of all other religions. A “true” believer therefore has a moral imperative of destroying diversity in order to protect other people.
This is not saying all or even most followers of these religions will follow that path, but that they need to water down or ignore some of the core theology to fully operate in a diverse society.
alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Actually there are schools of theology in both of these religions that enshrine diversity and embrace interoperability with other religions. They are just not mainstream because guess what? Mainstream religion is owned by power, and all that power is fascist essentially. Sure enough there are no true believers in anything but power in mainstream religions, start stripping them down on theology field and they reveal it.
I mean, just have a look at any works by Hakim Bey and Tim Morton’s latest book.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
It’s fairly contradictory, actually. With the whole punishing the children of sinning fathers, then having a verse that says that the sins of the father are not the sins of the son, or something like that.
TL;DR, depends on if you are old testament?
lastweakness@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Minor correction. Islam is the religion. Islamism is, essentially, the attempted application of said religion into politics or state law.
kossa@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Well, until my idea is to burn all people called Gene for whatever reason AND I somehow get the means to act upon my flawless idea. Then it’s not so delightfuland exciting anymore, at least not for the Genes.
Zachariah@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
\*daggermoon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Thanks Gene