Discussion Are you scared of going to hell?

[L0nely]

So I'm agnostic, but I've been raised in christian environment and lately I've been getting those weird panic thoughts about "what if all of it is true and after my death I will go to hell?" Even though I don't really believe in heaven and hell the way it's portrait in any religion. Am I going crazy?

 

[R_N]

No, But I don't believe in it.

Being on fire is probably very painful tho so it would suck being stuck in that loop. I wish God himself could also experience it.

 

[FuneralCry]

This existence is the only hell to me, and yes I certainly fear existence. It's terrifying how there is no limit as to how much we can suffer with no straightforward way to die. I believe that once we die, we simply cease existing, for me death means peace.

 

[singularity3]

Im scared of still in it

 

[Solo]

no.

 

[Arvid Schopentar]

As Philipp Mainländer put it, "Life is hell, and the sweet, still night of absolute death is the annihilation of hell."

 

[WonderingSoul]

I'm agnostic as well and I'm honestly really tired of this belief. I honestly don't think we would. It's just fear mongering from organized religion to keep people in control. A lot of interpretations of hell aren't even the same. Some religions, especially in the east, see it as a temporary waiting place you go to.

 

[tinyghost]

i dont believe in it but i was raised very christian. hell is permanent torture, the worst you can imagine, forever. its always in the back of my mind, that maybe its real, even though i dont believe in it myself.

 

[L0nely]

I'm agnostic as well and I'm honestly really tired of this belief. I honestly don't think we would. It's just fear mongering from organized religion to keep people in control. A lot of interpretations of hell aren't even the same. Some religions, especially in the east, see it as a temporary waiting place you go to.

Yes, I truly believe that if there is any god, he wouldn't judge us based on if we followed him or not but based on how we were during our life. If we were good people or no.

 

[tiger b]

God doesn't judge.

God is.

No hell to be scared of.

As others have kind of said, if there is hell, then this life is the closest approximation.

Just my opinion of course.

 

[ceriseange♡]

Catholic raised agnostic here, I totally get what you mean :( I have a lot of anxiety about everything in general so the thought definitely gets to me, but sometimes I like to think God would be able to see that I really tried my best and it was an act of desperation rather than disrespect

 

[busreservation92]

Hell is a man made place. Doesn't exist.

 

[jackrussell]

i used to be afraid of going to hell also, but i learned that it doesn't exist. man made it up to control the masses.

 

[Spiritual survivor]

Not of hell, but a failed ctb yes.

 

[F@#$]

So I'm agnostic, but I've been raised in christian environment and lately I've been getting those weird panic thoughts about "what if all of it is true and after my death I will go to hell?" Even though I don't really believe in heaven and hell the way it's portrait in any religion. Am I going crazy?

I think the same shit. I must have been brainwashed really well when I was a kid.

 

[Foreverix]

Hell is a traumatizing belief, so you're definitely not crazy. But the more I've thought about it, the more ridiculous it becomes. The whole concept of God to me is explaining a mystery by appealing to a larger mystery. But I think hell is just an idea that lent itself to behavior control and conformity. I decided when I left Christianity that I would rather burn in hell than serve in heaven, if any of it does exist. I don't care if it's Yahweh or Allah, they can suck my toes.

 

[gbi2]

I've mentioned in another thread that the film "What Dreams May Come" starring Robin Williams is about death and suicide. One scene in particular is about suicide.

If you are interested in the perspectives portrayed in a film, it is in the clip below, but it is obviously a spoiler for the whole film.:

 

[Life Is My Coffin]

I don't care where I go when I die.

 

[Darkover]

this place is hell so the chance are if you are ever bought back alive you'll be in hell again

 

[Yaffle]

No, I'm atheist and don't believe in anything after death.

The lights will go out and that's it.

 

[reallysleepy]

I have this fear too. I don't really believe in God but I do think sometimes "what if?". I once asked "god" that if I would go to hell for ctbeing that they please send me a signal in the form or breaking my mirror during that month and that if that happened I would become religious and change my life.
It of course never happened so now I rationally and irrationaly don't think I'm going to hell lol

 

[RandomMacBeth]

God wouldnt create a world like this, so i think god doenst exist, if god doesnt exist, hell and heaven too (only my opinion!!)
So i dont have any fear of hell

 

[hibikikyuxx]

Why would I fear something that doesn't exist? "Hell" is nothing more than a fictional place which religious people created to control other people. Nobody knows what happens to us after we die.

 

[nood11]

So I'm agnostic, but I've been raised in christian environment and lately I've been getting those weird panic thoughts about "what if all of it is true and after my death I will go to hell?" Even though I don't really believe in heaven and hell the way it's portrait in any religion. Am I going crazy?

Either a place of endless conscious torment exists or it doesn't. It doesn't matter what we think or believe. I wish there was a way to know what awaits us beyond death, if anything. If I knew for sure that death was eternal oblivion I would be more motivated to kill myself.

 

[pthnrdnojvsc]

No there is no hell.

All humans and and other animals have a common ancestor a single monstrous eukaryotic cell that evolved around 2 billion years ago. This cell is a machine. How can the children be qualitatively different from the parent? Are we not the same? Imo yes the more u read an test and think the more evolution and brain science make sense. And before that cell a chemical reaction.

The cell. 1. Origin of eukaryotes. Atlas of Plant and Animal Histology

mmegias.webs.uvigo.es

Life on Earth Arose Just Once

One isn’t such a lonely number. All life on Earth shares a single common ancestor, a new statistical analysis confirms. The idea that life forms share a common ancestor is “a central pillar of evolutionary theory,” says Douglas Theobald, a biochemist at Brandeis University in Waltham...

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[Praestat_Mori]

No, I'm not afraid of hell. Hell is on earth already. Death is the final relieve of all agony and suffering.

 

[Rainbow_Jumper]

I don't believe in heaven/hell/religion. I'm anti-theist, actually. But even if I did, I wouldn't really care. Not sure why, especially since it's depicted as eternal suffering. But I honestly don't care.

 

[ijustwishtodie]

No, I don't believe hell exists

 

[Orbitc]

I am an atheist and I read a lot of books as a child - Foerbach, Holbach, Dawkins, Krauss, Schopenhauer - I have always been an atheist. One day I jokingly wrote my wish in blood on paper to Satan and burned it after drinking it in champagne - amazingly, this damn wish came true! It was as if I was a character in the game and someone very smart and lucky, a million times superior to me, was guiding me)) Although I, of course, think that this was just a coincidence and adrenaline - it was amazing - I felt like just a cold fighting machine))) such strange feeling. Oh, if Satan existed and I could be like I was at that moment, I would have sold my soul to him)) He is a great guy once he fulfilled my insidious desire)) unlike God who never hears the prayers of even the most offended people. It would probably be fun in hell - there is a lot cool and smart people)))

 

[mavis]

I am actually terrified of there being an afterlife. The uncertainty, not knowing for sure if maybe afterwards I would suffer even more and not rest like I hope to, makes me sick.