Help! My Struggle with Religion.

[shighley3205]

This quote is from the do atheists believe in hell thread and I think it deserves it's own thread from both atheists and religous people alike

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Simple question:

Do you believe that the god you worship sends people to a place where they are to suffer for eternity, or not?

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I guess I'm sort of in the middle on this one. I was raised from childhood to be a Lutheran and as I got older I started questioning how some stuff in the Bible can be taken seriously when it seems so far off the wall. Then one night this past summer while me and my brother were blazing I got to thinking about God/Heaven/Hell/Devil etc and I've come to the conclusion that there are only two viable answers for this debate on whether or not God exists. And I wasn't going to post anything until I saw this quote but if this is a repost feel free to delete it.

First we have SEVERAL different kinds of religions, all worship a mighty being and all live by the same rules of conduct generally speaking but each worship a DIFFERENT god and subsequently each religion claims that if one doesn't believe in its faith then they are going to spend eternity in hell. And some (maybe all) teach that to disobey a law (man-made) is a sin. Now how is it a sin if a man-made law is imperfect? However each and every religion claims their "GOD" to be this all-knowing, all-powerful but most importantly ALL-LOVING being. Now assuming this is true that means the "ALL-Loving" god will send over 2/3 of the population into hell and I can't fathom that happening because then he is no longer all loving.

How can you religous people accept the fact that if your right over 2/3 of earth will perish (if you truly are good people shouldn't this bother you?) but more importantly how can you believe in a God who is this evil?

So either the athiests are right and no such supreme being exists or there is only one supreme being that is being worshiped around the world. I would like to hear what people think of this.

SH