Religion vs. Spirituality READ FIRST

[Oneironaut]

Obviously that's not what Christianity is about, if the Bible is anything to go by. It is very clear about this: anyone who is not a Christian is doomed to be subject to the wrath of an angry God. This is not a creature of love. It is one that demands eternal fear for its subjects. Jesus and his followers most certainly believed in Hell and eternal punishment, or else they would not have gone on about it so much. If you don't believe the Bible's claims of a Hell, how can you believe its equally ridiculous claim that Jesus is the son of the big invisible totalitarian dictator of the universe?

And these [unbelievers] shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.

And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;

They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.

But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.

He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.

And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,

In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:

Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;

Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.

The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:

And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.

And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.