[Beyond the brimstone]

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You do not need to fear the assumptions of a supernatural hell when there are plenty of worse things here on earth. It's time to find comfort in reality.

[ A valid complaint ]

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The fear of hell is normal, especially for people who reluctantly leave their faith while still struggling to call themselves atheists. This is a valid complaint.

Your nerve endings are not your soul; they are attached to a living brain. They stop functioning when the brain does.

[ War is hell,

heaven is a prison ]

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War is hell, heaven is a prison; the end goal of cults is to force you to visit some aspect of either in this life time. Yes, that is terrifying. You can not escape it through living or dying.

All you can do is be kinder to your neighbor & hope that they can make a effort to return the favor.

[ King James &

reinterpretations ]

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I also had anxiety but then I went through some documents from Jehovah's witnesses & Judaism where their faith was not built on threats of fire & brimstone . Angels & demons look nothing like the lazy Hollywood portrayals in the 1980's. Youtube memes the biblically accurate meow eye monsters in modern renditions.

You eventually realize that King James rewrote so much of the bible that various venues in the bible become re-translated to non-canonical venues that are closer to the Dante's_Inferno fan-fiction than Biblical hell by any definition of the word . This European King did this all to get away with end-less infidelity & murder . Modern translations do not say : " thou shalt not kill " . They discourage murder & only specific types of killing against the state count as murder by their standards .

As for the locations re-interpreted as hell, here is the list I remember : [ Ghenna pit , outer darkness , Sheole, the flavorless , wasteland , the sea torrent of James , the Muslim whale of Jonah , the place away from Abraham's , far from God. ]

Most of the bible is historical fiction set between the North African floods , the Titus wars , the Alexander wars & a secular post-Roman Muslim ruler ; before it was all rewritten as prophecy & foreshadowing in hind-sight . Think of movie scripts & scriptures. Ask why neither have toilets .

Near death experiences

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[ Lastly ] Even the ( N.D.E. ) near death experiences preached about often ignore the other side of that conversation where people came back from a unpleasant firey heaven or a pleasant hellish paradise. In some instances , they were not in a conventional after-life at all but going through their daily routine . Like they were going through the motions . Not truly living but not dead either . Every thing felt familiar but alien at the same time. Talking to people & supernatural entities from other worlds . Meeting people they would have never known in their life time . All based on whatever whispers your subconscious was able to piece together .