• afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    and has a pretty good message overall.

    while the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

    OT god would take your stuff and murder you, but your pain was over. You got eternal sleep with your ancestors. NT God sent you to hell. I can’t even venture a guess on the amount of human suffering on the society level and the individual level that was unleashed on the world from the belief in heaven and hell.