>>19412259>How can you sit and pray, thinking that you are talking to some carpenter [from] 2000 years agosocial conditioning. religion has been with us as long as language has, it's a very difficult thing for most to get out of, especially when the alternative is just cold reality
>And not only that, but you have to believe this or you will go to hellthe big selling point of christianity is that god himself made the ultimate sacrifice, atoning for all human sin so that we don't have to do anything to atone for it. It's a get out of jail free card. Since humans are lazy and love a good story, of course they took bait
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzif0afjN5Abut if it's any consolation, most people think of hell as Dante's description, not the biblical description of "eternal destruction" which just means you don't get to live forever. The concept of eternal life and the afterlife where pretty new around the time of Jesus, the OT doesn't even mention an afterlife or eternal soul, so really it's no surprise people came up with new theology to make sure they could keep their eternal soul safe
