god made hell... doesn't make sense

i used to be a protestant. God originally made hell for bad angels or sumtin like that. When Adam and Eve ate the apple from the tree and sinned God got pissed and deicded to make bad humans go to hell too.

yeah i understand where it came from (im an ex-ordained minister)... i am talking about the logical sense of what hell is compared to who the loving god is. do you see the difference?

Hell is other people.

Religion is a freaking joke. More people have been killed over religion than anything else in this world. I can't stand how people can believe such garbage. I'm sorry if this offended someone, but it's truly how I feel about the issue. I don't believe that there is a hell or a heaven for that matter. There is absolutely no proof of one ever being. I believe that when a person dies, they are dead and they decompose into nothing. That's it. I don't believe that you go to heaven and hell. I'm getting pissed off just thinking about it.

From what I've gathered most of the writings and basis for almost any churchs idea of hell is from non-official sources. I mean non-official, as in NOT the bible. Does anyone know what the bible said about hell? Separate from other sources, what did the bible portray hell as?

i think it might be something like everything and anything is heaven and hell, not 2 seperate poles of morality at different ends. like yin and yang, you know? a balance.

in my opinion Christianity is the simple man's religion. it offers a connection to a higher force, but at the price of original contemplation. and i dont trust the church one bit.

Hell was made up from some crazy catolic(sp?) school to stop little boys from smoking crack and pimping out hoes on the street...

the bible describes it as a place of "weaping and gnashing of teeth" and of "fire and brimstone."

it doesnt leave much room for free choice since one choice (rejecting relationship with god leading to hell) is not really a choice at all!!! kind of like giving someone a free will choice to do what you ask or to not do it and be killed as a result.

It dont have too.

Hell is such an incredibly primitive concept, devised from a primitive society who's idea of justice is simply revenge. Revenge really has no purpose other than indulging our urge to inflict harm upon others, to gratify our own urge to inflict suffering upon those who inflicted suffering. The real means to end suffering is not to create more, you'd think that would be a no brainer. To meet undesired suffering with more suffering, is like trying to put out a fire with a flamethrower...meanwhile still trying to figure out why the forests are burning.

I personally believe evil should be viewed as a disease, not an enemy. You don't eliminate cancer by trying to inflict pain on it, you eliminate it by careful reasoning to find the most efficient means of eliminating it. Hell is completely pointless, an existence that creates unbearable suffering which would only set in motion more suffering by karmic means. A logical god would simply blink irreversible evil out of existence.