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"With respect to the doctrine of hell, two thousand years is far more than enough. The damage this horrific and contemptible fantasy has done cannot be estimated. Surely torturers and inquisitors through the centuries justified their own atrocities with reference to hell ... Cruel dogmas make cruel people. Humans have made some progress through the ages.
We no longer think of the deranged as demoniacs and we do not respond to a sudden outbreak of illness by burning old women. Perhaps even conservative Christians will part from the doctrine, but I fear there will always be those ... who will insist that if you deny Hell you must deny Christianity as well. If that is our only choice, we should toss Christianity--and hell--into history's landfill.”
Reposted from facebook.com/gaytheist, originally from Christopher Hitchens?
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